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...have contributed dramatically to the growing success of women in professional athletics are Tennis Pro Billie Jean King and Jockey Robyn Smith. In 1971, at 27, Mrs. King became the first woman athlete in history to earn more than $100,000 in a year. She slammed and sliced her way to $117,000 in prize money (winning 19 tournaments) and picked up another $30,000 in endorsements. Robyn, 27, made much less last year, about $20,000. But she earned it by riding against some of the best male jockeys in the nation and winning 42 races...
...point out, has been coincidental. Asserts Billie Jean: "I want to be treated as an athlete because that's what I am. I'm doing what I enjoy most and getting paid for it." Echoes Robyn: "I'm not trying to prove anything as a female jockey. I do it because I enjoy it so much, and I think people should do whatever makes them happy...
...Phoney tunes," as they are called, seem to have originated in the Detroit area about five months ago when Kenneth Ascher, 20, a pre-med student at Eastern Michigan University, called WXYZ Disc Jockey Dick Purtan and said: "Listen to this." Since then, Purtan says, "people have been going crazy, calling up to play Old Folks at Home, Happy Birthday and everything else." One Detroit lawyer is being driven to distraction, Purtan says, because his phone number corresponds to the hallowed "shave and a haircut, two bits" refrain...
...Morocco reopened its doors to the oglers and the ogled. There were plenty of oldtime international set pieces-Paulette Goddard flashing rubies and diamonds, Hope Hampton flashing silver sequins, Aristotle Onassis flashing Jacqueline. But there were signs, too, that the times they are achanging. A disk jockey has replaced the orchestra. Dinner is a prix fixe $8.50-less than the average tip in the Elmo's of the '30s and '40s-for the new El Morocco is a private, nonprofit club (initiation fee $500, dues $200). When somebody proposed a toast to Elmo's late founder...
...months later, Kerner and Isaacs traded their C.T.E. holdings for 5,000 shares each in the Balmoral Jockey Club, another racing venture of Mrs. Everett's. In 1967 they sold the Balmoral stock for $30 a share, collecting a profit of $125,000 each on their original $25,000 investment. Government investigators also learned that Kerner and Isaacs turned a profit of $22,400 apiece within a ten-month period on stock in other Everett interests...