July 6, 1958

Repts on PHS survey finding death rate 32% higher for smokers

The heady lure of something for nothing -- a rainbow pot o' gold that usually is far out of reach -- is being made to come true by American business. It is called the free sample, and it is being used because it introduces a prospect to a product and does it quickly, easily and cheaply. More important, it often converts the prospect into a buyer.

OCEANPORT, N. J., July 5 -- The Wheatley Stable's luck extended to Monmouth Park today when its bay filly Lady Be Good took the thirteenth running of the $24,650 Colleen Stakes. The 13-5 shot scored by three-quarters of a length over the odds-on Lawdy Claudy.

DURING the last week, Howard Taubman, the music critic who occupies the neighboring cubicle, has contributed to the daily editions of The Times a series of illuminating and carefully fully documented articles about the arts in Soviet Russia.

WIMBLEDON, England, July 5 -- Althea Gibson still rules at Wimbledon. Unruffled by nine foot-faults called against her, she staved off a set point and went on magnificently to defeat Britain's Angela Mortimer, 8 -- 6, 6 -- 2, retaining the crown she won a year ago.