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Died. Marshall Cassidy, 76, onetime jockey, steward, executive secretary of The Jockey Club (1941-64) and secretary-general and vice president of the prestigious New York Racing Association (1955-60), who pioneered the nationwide adoption of saliva and urine tests for horses, devised and popularized the photofinish camera; of injuries he suffered in an automobile accident three months ago; in Glen Cove...
...year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits are already evident in her household. Her 25-year-old husband Mitchell has just retired from his job as gas jockey at a Nashville service station...
Died. Earl Sande, 69, famed jockey, who won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times in the 1920s and early '30s; of heart disease; in Jacksonville, Ore. Celebrated as that "handy guy Sande" by Damon Runyon, the spruce, sharp-tongued rider earned a place in sport's pantheon alongside Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bobby Jones. He won 967 races and nearly $3,000,000 in purses before retiring...
Should he hear a disk jockey he doesn't dig, Drake gets on the blower (he has 21 phones around the house, including one in each of the five bathrooms...
...does not come naturally to a fellow who was born Philip Yarbrough (his assumed name, he says, "sounds better") in Georgia on the edge of Okefenokee swamp. What did come naturally, though, was the sound of music. At an early age, he was conducting a fantasy disk-jockey show at home, playing his favorites-gospel and country, Eddie Fisher and the Four Aces. By junior year in high school he was doing a teen program on Saturdays on the local radio station, and after a year at Georgia Teachers College, he plunged into radio full time. Seven years and four...