Personality, Jan. 28, 1952

(This week the season's first big horse race—the $50,000 Santa Margarita Handicap—will be run at Santa Anita, California's finest track. The two probable favorites, Bed o' Roses and Next Move, both belong to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt—ED.)

ALTHOUGH Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's background is New York and Social Register, he was born in England ("I think mother miscalculated") and he has spent much of his 39 years working, in slacks and sweater, around horses. He lasted through only a year and a half of Yale, and then quit because he thought he knew what he wanted—"Fortunately...