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Pleased Trainer John Gaver, after being congratulated on the victory, produced a stock race-track reply: "Good horses make good trainers." Tom Fool's victory revived talk of a "dream race" between Alfred Vanderbilt's champion three-year-old Native Dancer and the champion four-year-old handicap horse. On a weight-for-age basis today, Tom Fool would carry 126 Ibs. in a mile race, the Dancer...
...Manhattan, after interviewing returning notables on the Queen Elizabeth, newsmen caught a glimpse and no more of Conductor Leopold Stokowski, back from Europe incognito (his traveling alias: Anthony Stanley) and minus his heiress wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski. Shielding his face with a black coat, he ducked out of his cabin, hurried down the gangplank and off in a waiting limousine...
...York's Aqueduct track, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, running at the rock-bottom odds of 1 to 20, romped to an easy victory in the mile-and-a-quarter Dwyer Stakes. The three-year-old colt's $38,100 purse raised his total winnings to $560,845, made him the sixth biggest money-winner of all time, just behind Whirlaway...
Divorced. By Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 55, sometime journalist, scion of Manhattan society's reigning family: his fifth wife, Patricia Murphy Wallace Vanderbilt, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...most rallying speeches of the three-day rally came from the Rev. Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, professor of philosophical theology at Vanderbilt University. "These days call for creative daring in social relations' said Dr. Ferre. "They call for setting the world right side up . . . These days call for freedom to think radically, to speak radically, to work radically, to go to the root of our troubles with the daring wisdom of Christian love and tender caution of Christian concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks...