Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY POPPINS IS A JUNKIE kicked off the craze. This was the brainchild of San Francisco Disk Jockey Dan Sorkin, who was fed up with the Mary Poppins cult, had 1,000 Poppins stickers run off for his friends, including Julie Andrews, who pasted one on her station wagon. Sorkin's station KSFO started printing the sticker, and before it knew what had happened, 60,000 had been given away...
Judges in the HRO Concerto Contest are unable to find a soloist good enough to play with the HRO. Radcliffe raises its room fee and requires girls living off-campus to pay the full amount for board. A WHRB disc jockey predicts the result of the Playboy Jazz Poll so accurately ("I had to prostitute my own taste") that he wins a weekend with a Playmate...
...Kentucky Derby leading every step of the way. But Jockey Don Brumfield kept insisting that wasn't Kauai King's natural way of running. In winning seven of twelve previous races, the dark bay, three-year-old colt had come from behind every time. In the Preakness last week at Pimlico, under Brumfield's sure rein, Kauai King reverted to his old ways. The result was even more impressive than at Churchill Downs...
...fair return on Owner Mike Ford's original $42,000 investment. It also made Kauai King the early-line favorite to win next month's Belmont Stakes and become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. "Racing needs a Triple Crown winner," said Jockey Brumfield. "I definitely know...
...around her Manhattan bedlam, Arthur, and admire the plangent din. Last week the Wild Ones were wilder than usual as the ridiculously successful joint celebrated its first anniversary. Jordan and Sybil sliced into a birthday cake to the cheers of such music lovers as Leonard Bernstein and Disk Jockey Murray the K, who kept trying to discuss esthetics above the entertainment. Caterwauled Sybil: "If you can talk, there must be something wrong...