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Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...
...forbidden to write, publish or even learn to read. Despite this prohibition, there were still about 100 Negro poets of varying significance before the Civil War, many of whom managed to publish their poems in church manuscripts or under white patronage. The best known was the Revolutionary poet Phillis Wheatley (who coined the phrase "first in peace" to describe George Washington and wrote heroic couplets in the style of Alexander Pope...
Charles W. Wheatley, 34, Princeton, Princeton, N.J.: "For me, the students are the only really viable political entity . . . Older faculty are ineducable when it comes to the revolution, the movement. They won't be shot, you know; a little island will be found for them some place...
Among the books on display are the autobiography of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), the first Negro woman anti-slavery lecturer, a volume of verse by Phillis Wheatley, and a memoir of this poetess by B.B. Thatcher. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) was a slave child sold on the Boston docks to a merchant. She became the first Negro woman--and second American woman--to write a book, and her poetry achieved international renown. She was also the first person to apply the phrase "First in Peace" to George Washington, who wrote to her and praised her literary gifts highly...
...cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from arthritis) and snowy-haired, he still shuffled among...