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...total of only 20 starts, Kelso has earned $707,155-an average of $30,745 for every mile he has raced. He was 1960's Horse of the Year, seems certain to become the third horse to win that honor two years in a row (the others: Whirlaway, Challedon). This week, with a lucky yellow ribbon wound into his forelock and Old Master Eddie Arcaro in his saddle, Kelso will parade to the post for the most important race of his brief career: the Washington International, 1½ miles over the turf at Maryland's Laurel Race Course...
Died. Benjamin Allyn Jones, 78, Calumet Farm's folksy, foxy trainer of six Kentucky Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like...
...eyes of easily distracted average readers regress eight to eleven times per 100 words. Teacher Wood's beginning students curb this tendency by running their fingers under each line, then every other line, until they learn the "whirlaway motion"-a series of circular sweeps down the middle of the page. In 2½-hour sessions (plus one hour of daily practice), they read faster and faster against a clock, get constant quizzes on comprehension...
...Whirlaway. Analyzing the prodigies' habits, Teacher Wood slowly evolved a new technique, practiced it for years on high school and college students in Utah. She calls it "a process of reading rapidly down the page, allowing the eyes to trigger the mind directly and eliminating the necessity of saying, hearing or thinking the sound of words." Mrs. Wood thinks most people are "sub-vocalizers" or inward lip-readers. Just as a pilot is aware of many things at once, her students learn to steep themselves in a book's total mood and meaning. "You see more than...
...five years old and practically a city park. But overwhelmingly, the tenpenny impresarios preferred to stick to drama, shying from competition with Broadway's big, corporate musicals, which approach high finance with their million-dollar advance sales and use stars whose fees recall the lifetime winnings of Whirlaway. This season, the off-Broadway producers finally discovered that audiences