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Among those grilled to make Henry copy: a friend in Lisbon, Ambassador Grew in Japan, a Mrs. Murphy stymied in Agua Caliente, Mexico, because she could not show she was a U.S. citizen. For a single broadcast Bill Henry's telephone bill runs to about $100. Although he has no plans for continuing the program when Hedda Hopper returns next month, radioracles are betting he will have a sponsor before he finishes his stint. Luck is Bill Henry's long suit...
Whiteman let him go because he was lazy, and he immediately landed a better job at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove. The Grove fired him for disappearing on long weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...
Last Sunday at Agua Caliente, the West Coast track where young Dew had won many a race, the management had arranged to present the champion with a gold watch, as a gala climax to the day's program. From the palatial stands the shrill yelling of 20,000 fans echoed through the mauve mountains, as field after field of selling platers pounded into the stretch...
Next day, when Taylor narrowed his lead by one more, Dew decided he had seen enough of Florida. Promised nine mounts at Agua Caliente on Sunday, Dew flew back to California. While he was traveling, Taylor proceeded to pick up two wins, two more the following day. Dew won two races on Sunday while Taylor loafed. At week's end, with two more days to go, both riders were neck & neck, with just 285 wins apiece...
...faced Jockey Longden was in front with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down to Mexico for Sunday racing at Agua Caliente in their attempt to chalk up the most winners by December...