Word: turfman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, 30, balding son of the late Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean; and Manuela Hudson ("Molly") Vanderbilt, 34, brunette first wife of Millionaire Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; he for the third time, she for the second...
Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 35, multimillionaire turfman, and second wife Jeanne Lourdes Murray Vanderbilt, 29, brunette socialite who once worked as a pressagent for Manhattan's chichi Stork Club: their first child (his second), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Heidi. Weight...
...Turfman MacKenzie is right; according to WMC, Los Angeles war-plant absenteeism was down .1% in November. To TIME'S Sports Editor, a box on the ears for taking the word of sports columnists on matters outside their field...
Navy Lieut. Alfred GwynneVanderbilt, 31-year-old turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...