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...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
...landing pit. > Drin: the 1¼-mile Strub Stakes, first $100,000-added horse race of the year (total value: $129,800), charging from ninth in a field of twelve to score by a length, at California's Santa Anita Park. The prerace favorite (at 3-5) was Ogden Phipps's four-year-old Buckpasser, Horse of the Year in 1966, winner of eleven straight stakes, and fourth biggest money winner ($1,271,224) in thoroughbred history. Buckpasser was scratched when he was found to have a quarter crack in one hoof similar to a split toenail...
...Ogden, Utah...
...banks. Utah law forbids banks to set up branches outside Salt Lake City, except by acquiring an existing bank that has been operating at least five years. Even so, Saxon in 1962 approved a new branch in Logan for First National Bank of Logan and in 1963 one in Ogden for First Security Bank of Utah, partly on the ground that Utah's restriction on branching "method" did not apply to national banks. That approval, ruled Justice Clark, amounted to "a strange argument that permits one to pick and choose what portion of the law binds...
When Greeley died in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, an ace Civil War reporter, took over as owner and editor of the Tribune. His son, Ogden, succeeded him in 1912, and twelve years later bought the Herald. Almost immediately, the new Herald Tribune glowed with a circulation that nearly surpassed the combined total of its two predecessors. Without stopping to start, the Trib had reached the top: a great paper serving a great city-and the world...