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...clock on the cold, blustery morning of last week's Kentucky Derby, Trainer Jimmy Jones of Calumet Farm made an agonizing decision: he scratched Gen. Duke, the heavy favorite, because of a bruised hoof. Immediately, bettors switched affection to the Wheatley Stable's Bold Ruler. Almost forgotten was Gen. Duke's stablemate, the muscular bay colt Iron Liege...
Says WGBH's mild-mannered General Manager Parker Wheatley: "We are doing what commercial TV does not do. We don't insult people's intelligence and we don't scream at them. We try to govern ourselves by our three Rs: respect for the viewer, respect for the performer, and respect for the material itself...
...Wheatley's boss, and topmost Brahmin around WGBH, is Ralph ("Mr. Boston") Lowell, the institute's sole trustee and perhaps the only banker who owns a show-business achievement award from Variety. Now that his operation is functioning smoothly, Benefactor Lowell finds it possible to report that through WBGH the Lowells now speak not only to the Cabots but to some thousands of Bostonians a day as well...
...Coaxed on by the cunning hands of Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Bold Ruler of the Wheatley. Stables barely outnosed Calumet Farms' Gen. Duke to take the $131,400 Flamingo Stakes at Miami's Hialeah. Across the continent at California's Santa Anita Park, Jockey Johnny Longden, 47, who has won more races than any other rider past or present, booted home his 5,000th winner, genially shrugged off questions about retirement...
...WHEATLEY...