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...individually owned stallion, and sired 231 offspring who so far have earned more than $4,000,000. One of his grandsons, Northern Dancer, won the Kentucky Derby in 1964; one of his sons, Kauai King, won the Derby and the Preakness in 1966. This summer, at the Saratoga yearling sale, nine of his offspring brought an average $61,000 each...
...Anglo-American Sporting Club dinner in London in honor of Jack Dempsey, 72, Getty recalled that 44 years ago he and the then-champion had climbed into the ring together. "Jack is one of the real heroes in my life," the oilman gushed. "We went two rounds together in Saratoga in 1923, and he convinced me I would never make a boxer. He knew just how much I could take." Countered Gentleman Jack: "On the contrary, Paul, I didn't pull my punches at all." With that, the two old hams squared off once again for the photographers...
...many of America's major music makers, festivals are the time for summer reruns. Most of this year's programming, at such places as Tanglewood, Saratoga and Ravinia, bears out the thesis: safe, familiar fare for the listener who prefers to leave his brains at home. It took the usually hidebound Metropolitan Opera to break the mold and demonstrate that a festival can also include the thinking man as well...
There she was, about to face the cream of Saratoga's August racing community. Not that they didn't all know each other; after all, it was the fifth party that Marylou had given in eight days. Nor was it because that, in honor of the Belmont Ball committee, she had invited them to, of all things, an after-the-races tea dance. "There are so many cocktail parties," Marylou said, "I wanted to do something just a little different." The reason for the apprehension was that "they"-the Wideners, the Wetherills, the Vanderbilts and the Sanfords-would...
...theft; the butler had locked every door but the front one. As the police pointed out, "Everyone who had access is a suspect." Marylou discovered the theft just before going out to a dinner in honor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is playing at this year's Saratoga Performing Arts Center, one of Sonny's pet projects. She went to get her jewel box, stashed away between blankets in the linen closet ("one of my four secret places," she says), and discovered the jewels were missing. "I had to go through the whole party without anybody knowing...