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Affair of Honor. Calumet desperately needs another Citation or a Bull Lea Jr. From their showing in the Hutcheson Stakes, Ky. Pioneer or Kentucky Jug just might fill the bill. The early Kentucky Derby favorites are George Pope Jr.'s California colt, Hill Rise (odds: 5 to 2), which ran away with the $132,400 Santa Anita Derby and is undefeated in six straight starts, and Edward P. Taylor's Canadian-bred Northern Dancer (7 to 2), which won Florida's $138,200 Flamingo Stakes...
...just spinning your wheels," says Calumet Farm's Trainer Jimmy Jones. "You can't run a racing stable on nickel-and-dime pots." And yet, there in the winner's circle, his pudgy face twisted into a gleeful grin, stood Jimmy Jones with Ky. Pioneer, which had just carried the devil's red and blue of Calumet to victory in the Hutcheson Stakes, of all races. The runner-up: Calumet's Kentucky...
...breeding alone, however, it would be hard to beat Ky. Pioneer or Kentucky Jug. Pioneer (odds: 15 to 1) is a son of Preakness and Belmont Stakes Winner Nashua; Jug (20 to 1), of the famed stud horse, Alibhai. Both are being groomed for the Derby in classic Calumet fashion-slowly, gently, painstakingly. To Owner Markey and Trainer Jones, winning the Kentucky Derby in the past has always been more an affair of honor than of money. "I would rather win the Derby than all the races in the world," says Mrs. Markey. This year, she may have...
...surrebuttal, Belli summoned from Chicago Dr. Frederic A. Gibbs, a pioneer in electroencephalography. After a midnight flight to Dallas, Gibbs took the stand, said in precise and authoritarian manner: "I determined that Jack Ruby had a particular, very rare type of epilepsy, a type that afflicts .5% of epilepsy cases, a very distinctive epileptic pattern...
Died. Dr. Franz Gabriel Alexander, 73, Hungarian-born Freudian psychoanalyst who emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, became the prime founder of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1932, helped pioneer psychosomatic medicine by linking a variety of physical ailments to longstanding emotional or personality disorders; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...