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...Kentucky's A. B. ("Bull") Hancock Jr. and Virginia's William Haggin Perry, Moccasin seems to have inherited all her family's good traits, none of the bad. Ridan was an incorrigible people-hater who ran away with his exercise boys. Lt. Stevens once threw Jockey Johnny Heckmann so heavily that Heckmann was out of action for two months. Moccasin, insists Trainer Harry Trotsek, 53, is "a perfect lady," so mild-mannered and businesslike that Trotsek refuses to take any personal credit for her success. "Good horses," he says, "overcome all sorts of things-including their trainers...
...used to running counterclockwise, on flat dirt tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle, it is 38 ft. higher than at the start and finish. Jockey Willie Shoemaker still insisted that Tom Rolfe had a chance. "This colt is hickory," said The Shoe...
...August Bostonians not only listened to the song, they loved it. "This song is so popular," WBZ disc jockey Bruce Bradley told his listeners during one show, we're gonna play it three times tonight." But one week later the station stopped playing it altogether, WBZ made no public statement on the ban, and it remained on the station's hit list as number one. One Sunday morning, when Dave Maynard played through the top thirty songs in order, he simply stopped at number two and went on to the newseast...
Only station WMEX continues to play the song, rating it number 18. Disc jockey Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsberg said that it was a "good sound that might express feelings of a kid about to be drafted...
...lyrical concern of the impressionable young has caused alarm in some quarters. Attempts to impose a blanket ban on Eve of Destruction have failed, but on grounds of taste many radio stations have decided on their own not to play it. Says Los Angeles' Disk Jockey Bob Eubanks: "How do you think the enemy will feel with a tune like that No. 1 in America?" Some rock jockeys play it safe by allotting equal air time to The Dawn of Correction, an "answer song" intoned by the Spokesmen...