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...Hoffa's 1948-56 income tax returns, the committee found $60.322 reported under such vague headings as "miscellaneous income" and "wagering." He explained that his friend Bert Brennan placed racetrack bets for him and always showed a yearly profit. Invited by the committee to explain his system, Brennan took the Fifth Amendment...
...drizzly day at Longchamp racetrack, a resplendent Aly Khan and his handsome son Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, were on hand to watch the running of the Grand Prix de Paris. Like any solicitous father, Aly unfurled his big topcoat to shield Karim from the rain. It was one of their few public appearances together since Karim became Aly's own spiritual ruler, helped dispel rumors that they have not hit it off well lately...
...from millionaire cronies such as Baltimore Colts' Owner Carroll Rosenbloom. ("Who wouldn't pay $1,000,000 to get control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then renamed Universal Controls, paid cash for Canada...
...dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted: "Not likely, mate. It's too darned dangerous." He had an equally wary word for the speed-prone public: "The roads are getting proper death traps. If you ask me, the racetrack is safer than the road between Farnham and London...
...contestants off the track by publishing a largely misleading list of possibilities. In fact, only one of our choices received the Call to the Black Robes in 1957. This year, however the CRIMSON takes the wraps off a genuine list of inside tips compiled with the aid of local racetrack prognosticator Clocker Spanielle...