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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week: ¶ At Chicago's Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of the year ($267,525). ¶ At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox Left-Hander Mel Parnell hurled his team to a victory over the White Sox, 11-4, became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this year...
George Harold Edgell spends his working hours in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, of which he is director. In his spare time, spruce, 62-year-old Edgell practices a rare and, he fears, a vanishing skill: hunting the wild bee.* Last week, in a pithy little book, The Bee Hunter (Harvard University Press; $2.50), he let the rest of the U.S. in on his secrets...
...Year in & year out radio's Mr. Anthony (now displaying his wares on Manhattan's WPIX-TV and WMGM) has been glibly solving the problems of his mumbling, star-crossed clients. Last May, This Is Broadway (Sun. 9 p.m., E.D.T., CBS-TV) opened a rival sideshow for somewhat higher I.Q.s. As an adviser for professional entertainers, Broadway promised to solve the "family worries, romantic entanglements and business troubles of the people who make the world laugh...
...made no recommendations on what should be done about the trend to bigness. But Committee Chairman Celler thought that the antitrust statutes should be tightened up. His subcommittee will take testimony from Government bureaus, labor leaders and industrialists for the remainder of the year, and will probably have a fresh batch of antitrust legislation ready for Congress next January...
Wellesley Wellington Vandeveer, onetime member of the Petroleum Administration for War and present delegate to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, was a cofounder of Allied Oil Co. 24 years ago. He and Partner Floyd Roy Newman started with $30,000 capital, most of which was borrowed. They fought off slashing competition, plowed back their profits and finally built the company into a $50 million-a-year business. Last year they sold out to Ashland Oil & Refining Co. for $12 million worth of the larger company's stock...