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...Race-track slang for apprentice jockey. When a horse's name in the entries has a buglike asterisk beside it, it means that an apprentice is riding...
...been given a caffeine stimu lant. He was suspended from racing for 60 days. ? Carolyn A., a filly named for her, won last week's $25,000 Firenze Handicap at Jamaica. ** Plus the usual tip, which is 10% of the purse. *Apprentice jockey. The name comes from the asterisk beside a horse's name on racing charts, indicating that an apprentice will ride. *Hooking a leg in front of another jockey's leg to keep him from forging ahead...
Last week Jockey Jack Flinchum lost his "bug." Ordinarily, there is no national to-do when an apprentice jockey loses his bug (the five-pound weight advantage allowed first-year riders, dubbed "bug" because of the asterisk that precedes the weights of bug-ridden horses on race programs). But Jockey Jack Flinchum, a baby-faced 17-year-old who looks like an angel and rides like the devil, has in the past three months become the darling of U. S. racing fans...
...physics instructor at Dartmouth, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan. He has traveled on five solar eclipse expeditions, belongs to a dozen reputable scientific bodies, including astronomical, physical, optical, geophysical and radio engineering societies. His colleagues have voted him an asterisk in American Men of Science for distinguished research. At present a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has actively developed the new science of cosmic-terrestrial relations, ably popularized his specialty in Man and the Stars, and in Earth, Radio and the Stars. Last week he published Sunspots...
American Men of Science is the U. S. Who's Who of scientific learning. The fifth and latest edition (1933) is a fat volume listing some 20,000 names, of which about 1,000 are starred with an asterisk, to designate "leading scientific workers," i. e., those chosen by election among men of standing in their respective fields. Most U. S. scientists covet the star as a signal honor, but the star system itself has repeatedly been criticized as unfair and misleading...