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...Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and everybody figures that the sport of kings is due for another coronation. But the last horse to win U.S. racing's Triple Crown was Citation in 1948-and the less said the better about his attempts to prolong the royal line at stud. Pretenders still keep popping up: Tim Tarn in 1958, Carry Back in 1961, Northern Dancer in 1964. What does them...
...substitute for a carefully though-out program, of whatever scale, for artistic endeavor. Creative courses have been in an ambiguous position at Harvard since the dawn of the Visual Studies program in 1963. At present, no one is quite certain of their place; the adoption of Vis Stud, and of such courses as Hum 4 and Hum 105 has given a certain validity to the idea that Harvard has a program in the creative arts. But no one is planning it, no one is administering it, and no one has defined its purpose or its limts...
...Such curious insights into three centuries of American manners and morals stud this book like the hammer work of a carpenter who has been paid by the nail. Gerald Carson is quite capable of organizing a text, as he demonstrated in The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, the goat-glands man, The Social History of Bourbon and The Old Country Store. But here his source material, the mere listing of which takes 19 pages of eyestrain type, apparently overwhelms him. Confronted with so much unassimilated abundance, Carson opts to fly over it, presenting what he calls "a bird...
...Fitzsimmons, 91, grand and cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis) and snowy-haired...
Grazing animals apparently pick up the infection from contaminated feed or water, after which the vibrios settle quietly in their genitalia and cause no discernible illness in adult animals. They have been detected in many seemingly healthy stud bulls and are transmitted to the female in mating. Then they attack the placenta and kill the fetal animals, causing them to be aborted...