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There were 47 shows in ten days. At each, there was the usual crush to get in; flowers fell from vases and were trampled under stiletto heels; ordinarily well-bred ladies pinned oldtime friends to the salon walls, picked their pockets for the proper credentials, and raced upstairs to jockey for front-row seats...
...been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite City to take a job as a clerk in his sister's hardware store...
Wolper chronicles great men in a widely syndicated TV program called Biography and unusual occupations in another excellent series called The Story of (a jockey, an artist, etc.). For contemporary subjects, he likes to use natural light and hand-held cameras in a simple and highly mobile technique. When hunting film clips, he will go to any amount of trouble to find the rare touches that make his documentaries distinctive. His award-winning Hollywood: The Golden Years contained dusty Swedish films of young Greta Garbo doing movie-house commercials for a Stockholm bakery...
...purses are generally smaller than in the U.S., the muscular bay had already earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin, France's top rider, a vise-handed craftsman who, at 21, already ranks with the world's best. Even so, Match II went out as a 6-to-1 long shot...
...started through the stands. But it was not the Americans' day. Biding his time back in the pack, Saint-Martin deftly drove Match II past the winded field, coming through on the rail, gaining on Kelso with every long stride. "I saw him coming," said Kelso's jockey Ismael Valenzuela, "but I just couldn't do anything about it." At the finish, Match II was 1½ lengths ahead and going away. Kelso's second-place finish will probably earn him Horse of the Year honors in the U.S. Match II went home with...