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Dick Francis, the British ex-jockey, is by now one of the exclusive circle of thriller writers whose annual novels make review columns and bestseller lists...
...disk jockey who is co-chief of Warner Bros. Records: "Music is participatory now. You've got a generation buying it that has lived through ten years of craziness and crisis. The music has reflected every facet of that period." He adds: "Those kids need those albums. You can't separate it from their lives." Publicist Stromberg recalls the incident of a tearful, angry teen-ager screaming at a cop who had just ejected him from a Rolling Stones concert in Boston for scuffling. "You have no idea, no idea at all," shouted the teenager, "what this concert means...
Ticket holders who had paid $20 to $500 to attend an Inaugural concert were disappointed when the emcee, Francis Albert Sinatra, failed to appear. But later in the evening, guests at a champagne breakfast at the Jockey Club in Washington's Fairfax Hotel witnessed a Sinatra performance that was-well, a performance...
...JOCKEY CLUB STAKES by WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME...
...that tradition comes The Jockey Club Stakes, and it is a nostal gic delight to have the show in Manhattan. Playwright Home's three central characters are titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...