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Died. William Woodward, 77, millionaire Wall Street banker and breeder of thoroughbred race horses, whose Belair Stud farm produced three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox in 1930, Omaha in 1935, Johnstown in 1939); in Manhattan...
...Hoot Mon's forebear was Hambletonian X, ancestor of almost every modern U.S. trotter and pacer. In 24 seasons, he got 1,331 foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months...
...racing against the clock rather than against other horses. There, if the horse can beat the world record for time trials of 1:55, set in 1938 by Billy Direct, Wagner believes Hi-Lo's Forbes will be worth far more than the $50,000-a-year stud fees he now potentially merits as a full-time stud...
...have really hit a new low: Eleanor Roosevelt touring Japanese coal mines-what sensible miner wouldn't be astonished? Frances Perkins "honored"-by Glamour magazine yet-for 50 years of service to the working girl. They call it "service"? Aly Khan-how thoughtful of him to pick a stud farm this time . . . Lady Astor, an ... arrogant woman, being horrified at the idea that she could have married a U.S. Army officer. Nobody in his right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn good ("They should be struck regularly...
Gene Tierney, looking unusually tweedy, and impeccably top-hatted Aly Khan were still following the horses. After a three-week vacation at Aly's stud farm in Ireland, they turned up at England's Epsom Downs race course. Object: to root home one of Aly's thoroughbreds...