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...lesson: a good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
Once in a rare while a vanity writer does hit a small piece of jackpot. Vantage, another Manhattan outfit, sees great possibilities in McDill McCown Gassman's Daddy Was an Undertaker, which is to be published next week. So far, reports Vantage, it has advance orders for 5,000 copies. Vantage has ordered a first printing of 10,000, talks happily of a potential market for Mrs. Gassman's memoirs of maybe 25,000. Among Vantage's promotional plans for the book is an autographing party for Author Gassman in the Jennings Funeral Home, in Rome...
...future, Stock even consented to let Eddie marry his only daughter, Dickie, even though Eddie's baseball earnings that year were exactly $1,500. Dickie, a striking brunette, turned out to be quite an inspiration. Eddie was sold to Milwaukee of the American Association and hit the jackpot with a .342 batting average. He ended the 1942 season by being voted the A.A.'s most valuable player...
...Leeman '52. Roger A. Pomeroy '55 won the second prize, a $20 Shaeffer pen set. Third prize, a free typewriter overhaul, was awarded to three people, John deBruynkops, III '53, Alden C. Davis '52, and Linette Peter '54. Fourth prize winner Richard C. Spelman '53 really hit the jackpot, winning 100 pounds of ice to be shipped anywhere in the United States...
...Jimmy Clark, the P.G.A.'s Azalea Open golf tournament, with a record 16-under-par 272; at Wilmington, N.C. Clark, 30, an unknown pro from Laguna Beach, Calif, had won only $180 this season before hitting the $2,000 Azalea jackpot...