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Carson started in show business in his home town of Norfolk, Neb., where at twelve he appeared as The Great Carsoni, the mitey master of magic and ventriloquism (he can still do both). After graduation as a journalism major from the University of Nebraska, he became a disk jockey, was a writer for CBS's Red Skelton, then quipster-quiz-master for ABC's afternoon Who Do You Trust? And in his five years of squeezing comedy out of contestants, Carson found just the honing he needed for The Tonight Show...
Earlier this month in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Ron Turcotte tried to drive his mount, Tom Rolfe, through a hole on the rail. Suddenly there was no hole. Another jockey abruptly cut over in front of him, and Turcotte had to rein in to keep from bumping into the horse ahead. Shut off with no place to go, he finished third behind Lucky Debonair. Ordinarily, he might have screamed foul. But in the Derby, by tradition, there is no such thing as a foul. Turcotte, 23, stalked into the Jockeys' room and snarled: "O.K. O.K. I learned a lesson...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...
Purposeful Maneuver. Along the rail. Ogden Phipps's Dapper Dan, another son of Ribot and runner-up to Lucky Debonair in the Derby, began to make his move. Jockey Turcotte remembered. Whipping righthanded, he drove Tom Rolfe straight toward the rail as if he intended to run right into Dapper Dan. At the last second before a collision. Turcotte turned his colt away. The maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their...
...roll fans, including those who were raised on Elvis Presley and, though too embarrassed to admit it, never outgrew their hound-dog tastes. Today more than 40% of the "teen beat" records sold in the U.S. are bought by persons over 20. When a Manhattan rock 'n' roll disk jockey solicited votes for a "rate the record" feature one recent school-day morning, the station was deluged with 18,000 phone calls, all but a few from housewives. The same feature, aired during prime teen-age listening times, never drew more than 12,000 calls. With a seismographic...