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Characteristically, ex-District Attorney Dewey started off forcefully, was running hard at the first turn. He 1) appointed a commission to investigate the race-track operations, and 2) moved for (and probably will get) the removal of Republican Leader Arthur Wicks of the state senate, who was a five-time caller at Joey Fay's Sing Sing cell. After his investigating commission reports. Dewey is expected to propose new laws to cut down the opportunities for shakedowns at the race tracks and also for labor racketeering anywhere in New York...
Pleased Trainer John Gaver, after being congratulated on the victory, produced a stock race-track reply: "Good horses make good trainers." Tom Fool's victory revived talk of a "dream race" between Alfred Vanderbilt's champion three-year-old Native Dancer and the champion four-year-old handicap horse. On a weight-for-age basis today, Tom Fool would carry 126 Ibs. in a mile race, the Dancer...
When Vanderbilt came into racing, he was determined not to act like a man who was heir to $8,500,000 and a high social background. In this endeavor his appearance was no handicap. A tall, weedy man with the slouchy good looks of a boy down from school, he fitted in easily with the working side of race-track life. He could be found of mornings consorting with exercise boys, grooms, dockers and indescribables around the back stretch of various race tracks. Later, when he got into the management of Baltimore's Pimlico track, he did something that...
...Steered." Bettenhausen got off to a bad start this year at Indianapolis, where he finished ninth. But when Indianapolis Winner Lee Wallard was cracked up in a race-track smash, Tony took over the winning car, a big, blue-and-gold racer owned by Murrell Belanger, a Crown Point, Ind. car dealer. Tony, who has an auto agency of his own in Blue Island, ILL., gives due credit to Owner Belanger: "You've got to have a man with money, a good car the money's being spent on." Tony knows that a winning driver also needs...
...managed to spade up a list of the Chicago Downs stockholders. Among them was many a newsworthy name: Ex-Sun Managing Editor James Mulroy,** now executive assistant to Governor Adlai Stevenson; the wife of House Minority Leader Paul Powell, who was speaker of the 1949 legislature that passed the race-track bill; Democratic Ward Boss Tom Nash, and a covey of lesser politicians...