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Students who wish to avail themselves of the Flying Club plane may apply to the president, J. W. Straus '42, Eliot C-21 or to the secretary, K. R. Cornwell '43, Eliot...
...opened with unprecedented fanfare. The Whitneys, the Wideners, the Woodwards and even Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly (Brenda Frazier) rubbed elbows with the turf's tinhorn sports. Reason: Florida's "friendly track" was recently purchased by a group of polo-playing, hunt-club socialites headed by Baltimorean Henry L. Straus. M.F.H., and the millionaire Munns (Gurnee and Charles Alexander) of Washington, Palm Beach and Paris...
...Straus, a onetime General Electric engineer, invented the American totalisator, an electrical device whose 1,500,000 moving parts automatically calculate and indicate the odds in pari-mutuel betting. The Munns backed him when he started to manufacture the contraption a decade ago. Their American Totalisator Co. collects a royalty on every bet made at the 45 U.S. race tracks that use its "tote...
Last fall, after they bought out Tropical's controlling stockholders (including onetime Capone Henchman John Patton, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and underworldly Owney Madden, who had suddenly been branded "undesirable" by the Florida State 'Racing Commission), Mr. Straus and the Munns had misgivings over the soundness of their venture. The Florida Legislature, seeking to raise $2,000,000 for old-age pensions, voted to increase its 1942 pari-mutuel "take" from 3% to 8%. The track's share remained...
...competition to determine the winning combination which will contribute valuable points to its House in the fight for the Straus trophy, each team is scheduled to play each of its opponents twice, but a system in which two defeats automatically eliminates the loser has been adopted to decide which House quintet will meet Yale...