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Last January WHRB announcer Pete Salerno '68 won Playboy magazine's nationwide jazz prediction poll, a dis-jockey contest to guess what the readers would choose the most popular jazz numbers of the year, Salerno scored first participate the readers' taste, but, he says; "it was a calculated win. I had substitute my own taste." As a part of the contest, he was supposed to popularize the records he chose, but "there were a couple I couldn't even put on the air...our listeners would have called up to complain...
...position of the Boston Monkey, but if they do they're nowhere. For in the frenzied world of the discotheque, where a dance is old while it's still new, only the sharpies and the "disco bums" are ever in the know. They know, as Philadelphia Disk Jockey Hy Lit knows, that "the Philly Dog was invented by the kids and is spreading through Philadelphia like a virus." And as everyone should now be aware, whenever Philadelphia rocks, the rest of the U.S. rolls...
...fallen off enough horses to break both arms, both collarbones, both legs (one of them five times), both feet, two vertebrae and most of his ribs. To the fans, Longden is known as "The Pumper" (for his style of riding) and "The Fox." He is the jockey who rode Count Fleet to a Triple Crown in 1943, who drove Noor to four straight upset victories over the great Citation in 1950, and who by last week had won 6,032 races-692 more than any jockey who ever lived...
...Looping the field on the final turn, he whipped George Royal into the lead, kept him there to win by a nose. The victory was worth $75,000 to George Royal's owner and $7,500 to Longden. But it was Johnny's last purse as a jockey. "I'm hanging up my tack," he announced. And so ended 44 years of riding horses for money, a career that began with county-fair trick riding in Canada and made Longden a millionaire. The mounts he rode earned their owners a grand total...
Died. James Edward ("Sunny Jim") Fitzsimmons, 91, grand and cheery old man of U.S. thoroughbred racing; of heart disease; in Miami. A stableboy at ten, then a so-so jockey on half-mile outlaw tracks, Mr. Fitz hit his stride by the mid-'20s when he became head trainer at Bel air Stud Farm and the Wheatley Stable, then over the years saddled such greats as Johnstown, Nashua, Bold Ruler and Triple Crown Winners Omaha and Gallant Fox, winning a total of 2,275 races and $13,082,911 (his cut: 10%). Until he retired at 88, stooped (from...