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...major league debut ("Tomorrow's another day, kid, and you're going to be playing centerfield tomorrow"). Barrera said the decision not to let Cauthen ride Affirmed in the $200,000 Strub Stakes was "one of my hardest." But he earlier confessed, "You know what race-track people do fastest? Bury others." Still, it was Barrera who put Cauthen on Father Duffy, and gave The Kid the chance to break his losing streak...
Melanie Cain graduated from high school five years ago in Naperville, 111., and set out to make her fortune as a fashion model. Soon she found a place with Manhattan's prestigious Ford Model Agency. She began going around with a celebrated race-track figure named Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson. He set her up as the head of her own modeling agency, named My Fair Lady. Her picture began appearing in the pages of Vogue and McCall's, even on the cover of Redbook, and soon she was earning more than $100,000 a year. "She was nice, considering...
...track by four of his friends, who were convicted, along with Mandel, on similar charges last week: W. Dale Hess, former Democratic leader of the state's house of delegates; Hess's business partners, Harry and Bill Rodgers; and Irvin Kovens, allegedly the principal financier of the race-track purchase. Also found guilty was Attorney Ernest N. Cory Jr., who did legal work for the group. In 1972, at Mandel's urging, Maryland's state legislature granted an extra 18 racing days to the track, thereby increasing its profitability...
Mandel received approximately $350,000 in favors from his race-track cronies-including jewelry, clothing, plane tickets and shares in business ventures. During six grueling days of testimony, he insisted that these were merely innocent gifts, but the jurors were not convinced. After their verdict was announced-following an unusually lengthy deliberation of 13 days-jurors said that the vote was initially 9 to 3 against Mandel, became 11 to 1 and stayed there for six days. The lone holdout told newsmen afterward that he believed the parties were innocent as a matter of conscience, if not as a matter...
...things can stop the kid, but only two," one particularly wise race-track hand suggested...