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...Stumpy Jockey Steve Brooks, 36, who has been going around in winning track circles for almost 20 years, rode to greater glory at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Slashing away with his skillful whip, Steve got a two-year-old bay filly named Tempest Tossed to stay in front of her field for three furlongs, and became the seventh jockey in U.S. racing history to ride 3,000 winners...
Television's newest rage consists of a jukebox full of rock V roll records, a studio full of dancing teenagers, and Dick Clark, a suave young (28) disk jockey full of money. For his go-minute American Bandstand, which is carried by 90 ABC stations each weekday (3 p.m., E.S.T.), Clark draws one of the biggest audiences in daytime TV, some 8,000,000 (half of them adults), 20,000 to 45,000 fan letters a week, and an income approaching $500,000 a year. Admits Clark: "It's all a little frightening...
Pull Up Some Wood. Amid his bouncing and shuffling teenagers, ex-Harmonica Player Clark is right at home. Personable and polite, he manages to sound as if he really means such glib disk-jockey patter as, "Let me pull up a hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem...
...radio-station owner in Utica, N.Y., Teen-Age Spokesman Clark won his spurs as a disk jockey while attending Syracuse University, caught on with ABC's WFIL-TV in Philadelphia after graduating in 1951. At first his youthful appearance counted against him. He looked unauthoritative as a newscaster, and the wrong man to be plugging beer when he seemed hardly old enough to drink it. He got his big chance in July 1956, when he took over Bandstand, a jukebox-and-dance show that had been playing locally for four years...
...meet record in the 100-yd. butterfly (0:54.6), boosted the Wolverines to 72 points and the championship. ¶ Winter-book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...