Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acres of rolling Kentucky bluegrass are worth some $3,500,000-and that's not even counting the 18-room manor house, 36 outbuildings and 23 miles of white oak fences. The estate was inherited from his family by Mrs. Markey's first husband, Chicago Tycoon Warren Wright, in 1931, three years after he had sold his controlling interest in Calumet Baking Powder Co. for $29.2 million. He insisted, nonetheless, that the farm show a profit. Wright spent as much as $75,000 on a single brood mare, hired experts to chart thoroughbred blood lines, handpicked every employee...
...science, breeding race horses is as risky as roulette. Horsemen estimate that fully one fourth of the foals dropped never get to the starting gate. The odds against producing a Kentucky Derby winner are about 14,000 to 1. However, Wright struck it rich: in 1936, at the Saratoga yearling sale, he bid $14,000 for a brown colt named Bull Lea. On the track, Bull Lea won a useful $94,825. But it was in the barn with the mares that Bull Lea lived up to his name. By last year, his offspring, most notably Citation, Armed and Iron...
More than $600 was collected at Radcliffe where enthusiasm for the drive was greater than expected, according to Robert E. Wright '65, the College's on-campus SNCC representative. At both Moors and Cabot, over $100 was collected...
...Wright said that SNCC was fairly satisfied with the outcome of the drive, although they had hoped to reach the predrive goal...
...Wright was the third University student to be beaten up in this area within the past week. The other two beatings occurred last Tuesday night, one by Weeks Bridge, the other on Plympton St. The University police have established an extra patrol by the Charles to combat the recent rash of beatings...