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...begin? No one seems quite sure, but Ken Fairchild of New York City's radio station WMCA has a theory. In 1964, he recalls, WMCA created a Smilie similar to the curren version as part of a promotion campaign for the Good Guys, the station's disk-jockey team at the time. "Ours had a few wisps of hair on the top," he recalls, "and I think it was cuter." WMCA handed out thousands of Good Guy sweatshirts during the 1964-66 period and a few still can be seen around the city today. One of them...
Sara's flowers and her food were exquisite distillations of the seasonal crops. Gerald's daily attire, bought at a seamen's supply store, became the resort uniform: white duck trousers, striped jersey, the sailor's work cap that Scott called a jockey cap in the novel. What set the Murphys apart was a special, large-minded devotion to each other and to their friends. Dos Passos called the marriage "unshakable-everyone was at his best around the Murphys." Though she was notably candid with them, Sara in particular doted on her friends: "It wasn...
...lives as well as their talent. Drummer Steve Hornyak, 30, of The Crimson Bridge, gave up a $35,000 house, a Toronado, and a career as a school-band director when another Jesus musician challenged him to "go tell about Jesus." Scott Ross, 31, a former New York disk jockey, has become head of a Christian commune in Freeville. N.Y., the Love Inn. Ross still tapes a weekly show that he uses to promote Jesus music on standard stations...
Died. Eddie Neloy, 50, one of the winningest trainers in horseracing history; of a heart attack; in Elmont, N.Y. At 14, Neloy ran away from the slums of Chicago's South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps...
...plan almost worked. Shortly before midnight, less than an hour after the frogmen had planted dynamite in the engine room, Disc Jockey West announced: "Flames are approaching the studio, we are abandoning the ship. Goodbye and God bless . . ." Everyone but the captain, the chief engineer and one sailor clambered overboard into lifeboats. But a Dutch tugboat, a firefighting ship from Rotterdam's Europort, a Dutch navy frigate carrying 250 battle-dressed marines, a navy Neptune reconnaissance plane and a helicopter all converged on the scene and put the fire out before it could damage the transmitter...