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...verdict from the 42,080 opening-day crowd was prompt and affirmative. "It still has its old familiar charm," declared George D. Widener, 79, who has raced his colors at Belmont since 1913. "Beautiful," sighed Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest. "Bigger and better than ever," said Jockey Club Chairman Ogden Phipps...
...describe this week's 94th Kentucky Derby is to say that it bears a certain resemblance to a political campaign. The original favorite was Ogden Phipps's Vitriolic, last year's two-year-old champion and winner of $429,896, who has since developed weak knees and will sit out the race. Hirsch Jacobs' Wise Exchange made a good showing in the primaries, winning two big winter stakes in Florida, but he is footsore from his strenuous campaign (27 races in two years) and has also been scratched. There is no shortage of favorite sons: Derby...
...study the cultural setting of Biblical writings, he was the forerunner of modern critical scholarship on Scripture. Convinced that denominationalism had outlived its usefulness, he was an embryonic ecumenist and worked to achieve a merger between Germany's Reformed and Lutheran churches. "People are learning," says Schubert Ogden of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, "that Schleiermacher was the first great theologian to articulate a reinterpretation of Christian tradition in reference to modern life...
...Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel Eliot Morison, J. D. Salinger, Bertrand Russell, William Manchester, Peter De Vries, Ogden Nash, Gore Vidal. Issuing some 250 titles last year, the company's sales reached $11 million...
...FULLBACK: Lee White, 21, Weber State, 6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs. "A sleeper," says one scout, apparently figuring that White would go unnoticed by the other bird dogs because he played for the small Ogden, Utah, school. Not so. A Little All-America, White carried the ball an average of 28 times a game, ran for 276 yds. against Idaho. "Doesn't have great outside speed," says a scouting report, "but really tough inside. An excellent blocker on both runs and passes. Will be among the first four draft picks...