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Before hardening of the monetary arteries set in, Newport reared its cottages like palaces, its hostesses like monarchs, and no higher gates remained to crash, outside of heaven's. Its most famous "cottage" was Cornelius Vanderbilt's "The Breakers," now unoccupied but open to sightseers, which cost $5,000,000 and boasted 70 rooms (33 of them for servants). Newport's sauciest social queen was Mrs. Stuyvesant ("Mamie") Fish, who relished the Texas Guinan approach to guests. "Howdy-do, howdy-do," she would jabber at new arrivals. "Make yourselves at home. And believe me, there...
...victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer's earnings to $230,495, and made him the money-winningest two-year-old of all time (the previous record: $219,000, won back in 1931 by the unbeaten filly Top Flight). Even more satisfying to Owner Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was the prospect ahead; for Native Dancer is the obvious early choice for next year's Kentucky Derby (a race Vanderbilt has never won) and the Triple Crown...
...superlative son of Polynesian (leading money-winning sire of two-year-olds this season) is the second foal of Geisha (a fair-to-middling Vanderbilt mare by the great Discovery). "He doesn't have a nerve in his body, or a drop of temperament," according to Trainer Winfrey. This is one explanation of the Dancer's greatness. Another, Winfrey suspects, is inside the colt's deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer...
...ranked Michigan State, after a first-quarter scare, an easy 34-7 victory over Penn State behind Quarterback Tom Yewcic's three touchdown passes; secondranked Maryland over undermanned Louisiana State, 34-6; fifth-ranked Georgia Tech over Vanderbilt, 30-0; Purdue, the Big Ten's probable Rose Bowl entry, over Illinois, 40-12; Michigan over Minnesota, 21-0, for the Little Brown Jug; Iowa, scoring its first Big Ten victory in two years, an upset of Ohio State, 8-0; unbeaten Duke, one of the South's best, over unbeaten Virginia...
...year-old Scottish Earldom of Airlie (two castles, one lodge, 69,000 acres) and onetime favorite escort of Princess Margaret. Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, four other members of the Royal Family and 800 guests witnessed the most glittering Anglo-American union since the 1895 marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Ninth Duke of Marlborough; in St. Margaret's Church, London...