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CARLA THOMAS, 25, daughter of a Memphis disk jockey, was recently voted the favorite singer of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, an honor won last year by the Supremes. Like the Detroit trio, Carla usually persuades by gentleness on The Queen Alone (Stax). Her voice is slightly husky, although at times she hones it to a piercing cry that cuts straight through the rocking under rhythms...
Trooper 36-24-36. The originator of the series is Richard Orkin, 32, WCFL's director of creative production. A Yale Drama School dropout, he is also the voice of Chickenman and other male characters. The rest of the cast are Disk Jockey Jim Runyon, as the pomegranate-voiced announcer, and, in the female roles, Jane Roberts, WCFL's ex-traffic reporter ("Trooper...
...beautiful. Approaching the stretch turn, he was second to last and then, according to the official chart, "circled the field with a mighty rush" and "established a commanding lead." Coming from the invariably monosyllabic chart writer, that is poetry. Proud Clarion, despite a less than perfect ride by jockey Bobby Ussery, also started to make a good move in the stretch, and for a split second it looked like it might be the Derby all over again. But he tired and his stride shortened, while Damascus, without the whip through the last half furlong, kept drawing away. The slow-motion...
...what to say. Two of the favorites, Successor and Ruken, never got near enough to smell the roses. And Damascus, the 8-to-5 top choice who had been touted enthusiastically by the professional handicappers since last December, just managed to hang on for third money with the best jockey in the business whipping his flank...
...strength left for an impressive duel in the stretch with Proud Clarion, and observers said later that if top jockey Bill Hartack, who wanted the mount, had been on Barbs Delight, it might have gone the other way. Hartack will have the horse, and one-sixteenth of a mile less to go, in the Preakness...