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Just off the backstretch at New York's Belmont Park, 56 horses went on the auc tion block as the late Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable was dis persed. Over 37 years, the blunt auto heiress made $20 million breeding horses at her 850-acre farm in Upperville, Va., and racing them under Brookmeade's white silks and crossed blue sashes. In its last day at the track, Brookmeade was still a winner: the horses brought $1,000,300, including a record $75,000 for an unnamed yearling filly sired by the 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, Swaps.
Lifting a leaf from his younger brother's best-known book, Biologist Sir Julian Huxley, 74, offered a smashing suggestion to a London meeting of the Eugenics Society — that enlightened husbands, in the interest of a brave new world, ought to let their wives undergo artificial insemination via "some admired donor." At first, conceded Sir Julian with elegant understatement, the idea would probably meet with "abuse" and "various legal difficulties. " But it would catch on: "The certain success of the experiment in the shape of outstanding and happy children would soon be decisive in inducing an increasing number of couples to adopt similar methods."