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...Ease the Pain. Actually, Dancer's Image was not drugged at all, in the usual sense of racetrack dopings. Phenylbutazone is neither a stimulant like Benzedrine nor a sedative like Nembutal. It is an anti-inflammatory analgesic, a painkiller developed in Europe and introduced 17 years ago to the U.S., where it is marketed under the trade name Butazolidin and prescribed for such human ailments as arthritis, phlebitis, bursitis and tennis elbow. Athletes use it often...
...held its ground near the Saigon race track. Although General Westmoreland had at first acceded to South Vietnamese wishes to clear the city with ARVN troops, by week's end U.S. help was clearly needed; soldiers of the U.S. 199th Infantry Brigade were helilifted onto the racetrack turf to join the battle...
Just for laughs, Jack Benny, Judy Canova, Phil Harris all used him-usually as the voice of a sleazy racetrack tout. But Kiss-of-Death Leonard, as he was beginning to be called, soon found himself in still another dying medium. Radio was moribund, television was thriving and once again Leonard was jobless. He had no compunction about trying his hand at TV scriptwriting. "The minimum price in those days was $550 for a half-hour show," Leonard recalls. "No respectable writer would sell for that, but I would." Leonard was no Paddy Chayefsky, but he was cheap...
Horses used to be something that blue-blooded adults owned and red-blooded children dreamed about. But the galloping U.S. economy has put people in the saddle who ten years ago could get no closer to horseflesh than the seats at a racetrack or the illustrations in Smoky. There are now 3.5 million "pleasure horses" in the U.S., compared with two million...
...tactics they used were at the same time crude and organized. Money was spent freely. The owner of a large racetrack buttonholed vacillating legislators, presumably offering rewards (campaign contributions) in return for support of the leaders' candidates--Stanley Steingut, the anti-Wagner leader in Brooklyn, and Jack Bronston of Queens (both, incidentally from New York City, hardly a major concession to upstate interests). One Manhattan legislator reported being offered a campaign contribution and the payment of a primary fight should he switch his allegiance to Steingut. A New York City reformer shifted his support after an organized series of telephone...