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...year after he pleaded guilty to lightfingering $637,000 from the state and drew a 12-to-15-year sentence, onetime Illinois State Auditor Orville Hodge, now a $7.50-a-month disk jockey at the Menard branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary, had a word for the taxpaying public: "I still don't know what happened. This year has seemed like ten years. It's been awful, and sometimes I get so lonesome. I've been punished enough...
...After 30 years on the track and more winners (5,090) than any jockey on record, Johnny Longden got the shortest and roughest ride of his career from a maiden filly named Royal Zaca at Del Mar. When his mount reared, Johnny was pinned against the starting gate and set down for the rest of the season with a broken...
...Dead Jockey (MGM) offers a transposed version (from Paris to Madrid) of Irwin Shaw's story about an ex-Air Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his rationalized pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario...
...Galloping into the homestretch, Jockey Doug Dodson urged four-year-old Manassas into the lead, held off the final drive of Swoon's Son and flashed across the finish line the 6½-to-1 winner of last week's $125,400 Arlington Handicap on the grass at Arlington Park outside Chicago...
...Thundering into the homestretch, Jockey Conn McCreary last week urged three-year-old Clem to the head of the seven-horse pack, galloped across the line if lengths ahead of Kentucky Derby Champ Iron Liege to win the $151,500 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park outside Chicago...