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...group of rich Eastern lawyers began meeting in Saratoga Springs "to get the benefit of the waters and to see our friends." Although they called themselves the American Bar Association, for years they stayed so Saratoga-centered that one member recoiled at the very idea of gathering in "faraway" Cleveland. "Why, we'll have a lot of strangers at the meeting," he warned...
...Bridge of Green. Harlem became a place of brownstone fronts and Saratoga trunks. Oscar Hammerstein built the Harlem Opera House: it now houses a bowling alley. William Waldorf Astor put up a $500,000 apartment house on Seventh Avenue. Commodore Vanderbilt showed off his trotters on Lenox Avenue. The rich flocked up to Harlem for the summer...
...science, breeding race horses is as risky as roulette. Horsemen estimate that fully one fourth of the foals dropped never get to the starting gate. The odds against producing a Kentucky Derby winner are about 14,000 to 1. However, Wright struck it rich: in 1936, at the Saratoga yearling sale, he bid $14,000 for a brown colt named Bull Lea. On the track, Bull Lea won a useful $94,825. But it was in the barn with the mares that Bull Lea lived up to his name. By last year, his offspring, most notably Citation, Armed and Iron...
...determined from the start not to be diverted from fulltime writing by the mere need to eat. For a while he lived on stale bread and buttermilk in a $3 room on Hudson Street. Yaddo, the writers' colony run by Mrs. Elizabeth Ames at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., became a home away from home. He stayed there off and on for several years, even through one winter when other writers had fled their literary monastery, working for his board on the woodlot, running supplies, and as general factotum...
Strictly speaking, A Kind of Magic begins in 1938 and covers the years of Saratoga Trunk, Giant and Ice Palace. But Author Ferber roams as far back as her days as a $3-a-week cub reporter with the Appleton, Wis., Crescent. Never married, she has had an exuberant, lifelong love affair with "this fantastically rich and spectacular, this gorgeously electric and vital country." Bridgeport and Ashtabula interest her as much as Berlin and Athens, and in a few incisive words she can draw an ineradicable image of a city or a country. "Gray, shrouded, crumbling" Galveston reminds...