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...Reuben Tarn...
...Bible salesman who despite the handicap of a prison record (eleven months for forgery) hard-sold his way to leadership of the U.S.'s biggest "business engineering company," whose services he promoted by staging some of golfing's gaudiest and most lucrative tournaments at his Tarn O'Shanter Country Club outside Chicago; of a heart attack; at Tarn O'Shanter...
Malcolm Arnold: Guitar Concerto, Op. 67 (Julian Bream, guitarist, with the Melos Ensemble; RCA Victor). A haunting, fantasy-ridden score by the composer of Tarn O'Shanter and The Bridge on the River Kwai that gives the guitar a chance to sing, emote, or simply brood, as it rarely can elsewhere. Britain's Bream knows the instrument's moods as surely as any guitarist now playing...
...stakes victory to push his earnings to $315,000. Tompion's bloodlines-by Tom Fool out of Sunlight, a Count Fleet mare-cannot be improved upon. Tom Fool was recently voted the outstanding horse of the 1950s, has already sired one Derby winner, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn (1958). For C. V. Whitney, a Derby victory would be a long time in the making; in ten Derbys, he has entered 13 horses, never been in the winner's circle...
...track stewards grounded Ycaza for 130 days for fouls; in 1958 he was ordered out of the saddle for 110 days. From 1958 came the memorable picture of Ycaza, riding Jewel's Reward in Hialeah's Flamingo Stakes, and coming down the stretch bumping Rival Tim Tarn. Ycaza was suspended for 15 days, Jewel's Reward was disqualified at a cost of $77,800 to Owner Elizabeth Arden Graham, and Tim Tam went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. It was at about that point that trainers began shrugging Ycaza off as a foolish...