Word: wbz
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Across the river from the College, under the WBZ tower, is one of the centers of New England harness racing, the Metropolitan Driving Club of Boston. More colts were trained to harness at its track last year than at any other New England track. The recent upsurge in the popularity of harness racing has begun to affect the Club, whose history reflects the shift that is new going on in harness racing from a rich man's pastime to a popular spectator sport...
Twelve millionaires started the Club at the beginning of this century to make use of the State-built speedway. They built a sumptuous clubhouse where WBZ's transmitter now sits, and in 1914 put up one of the finest stables in New England. The Club soon grew into a great social institution and outlived all the similar driving clubs around Boston. Its colorful races during the twenties made the Club a haven for New England's trotters and pacers. But the Club's pageantry declined as the old-timers, raised in the tradition of pure harness racing, began...
Closely associated with the Metropolitan Driving Club is the Ralston Stable, located at the foot of the WBZ tower. In business for 64 years, this stable trains many of the Club members' horses on the track. Besides the Saturday afternoon races in the summer, the Stable sends horses to nearby Foxboro and Saratoga, Roosevelt, and Yonkers Raceways in New York...
...Brattle Theatre will enter the television field Sunday when it presents the first in a series of 13 scheduled shows over WBZ-TV. Program time...