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Three-Year Warmup. Since February 1952, "Happy" Chandler, onetime governor of Kentucky (1935-39), Senator (1939-45) and high commissioner of baseball (1945-51), had been beating his drum and pinning on Happy buttons from the Cumberlands to the Purchase. "I've covered every town in this state," he says, "some of them several times." Already he has campaign managers lined up in 91 of Kentucky's 120 counties, although the Democratic primary is not until Aug. 6, and the "official" pre-primary campaigns will not get under way until May, the week after the Derby...
Reason for Happy's three-year warmup: he is bucking the Democratic machine of Governor Lawrence Wetherby. As of last week most Wetherby Democrats were privately admitting that Chandler had a big head start. But after the machine got warmed up, they promised, the campaign would be a real race. Last week in Louisville, Judge Bert Combs, the machine's candidate, opened his headquarters and began to chase Chandler around the state. In Bloomfield he strolled into Virgin's Restaurant and was greeted by the proprietress. "Well," she said, "is this our next governor?" "Well," twanged Combs...
...what amounted to a warmup contest, Framingham High became the 18th straight victim of the Yardlings yesterday, 10 to 0. Goalie Bob Connors registered the team's second shutout by stopping only eight Framingham shots. Bob Cleary scored twice, and the other Yardling goals were evenly distributed among his teammates...
...world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close to aircraft-carrier speed and precision...
...York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry...