Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was on hand to watch two fillies carry his cerise & white diamonds in their maiden tests (they finished one & two); so was Warren Wright, whose Citation, Coaltown and Free America would all race in the 18-day meeting. Hidden in the crowd near the pari-mutuel betting windows, two Pinkerton agents ignored racing's big names and kept their eyes on the bald bookie in suede shoes...
Representatives of the college rested with a five-man delegation elected last spring. In addition to Houghteling, the contingent included Alfred M. Goodlec, Jr. '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Robert C. Fisher '51, and Paul L. Wright '49, an alternate originally who replaced Frederick L. Deane...
...Wright and Houghteling entered their names for chairman when the balloting for officers began in the region's first caucus. Outgoing regional chairman Lawrence Jaffa 2Div had not at that point filed for reelection in view of his candidacy for national vice-president. His subsequent defeat for the national office set off an intricate chain of political complications...
Friday's stormy caucus evidently brought the split to a head. The sun was already shining over lake Mendota, literally if not figuratively, when the session reported out the nominations of Paul L. Wright '49, Houghteling, and William Tracy of Springfield college. Jaffa was not eligible for the office on Friday night because he was running for national office on for national office on Saturday morning...
...honeymoon columns last week, Bootsie welcomed another newcomer to the Hearst fold. Cobina Wright Sr., veteran Hollywood hostess, had signed up with The Chief to do a column about what she knows best-celebrities. It started last week (without a byline for the first few days) in the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and is ghostwritten by bespectacled Charles Gentry, onetime drama critic for Hearst's Detroit Times. "I'll write about, famous people, both inside and outside the U.S.," Cobina told a reporter. "After all, my dear, I've known just about everyone...