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...Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high wit of a local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming his own tunes, singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor. "All I do," he says, "is just take...
...Cold Care. Bourboule businessmen promptly hired Gentleman Jockey André Bruneau. Loaded with Bourboule cash and blessed with a sharp eye for not-too-sick selling platers, Bruneau bought a four-year-old bay named Pyrame, a short-winded chronic wheezer with an unimpressive record on the track. A special stall was built half a mile from La Bourboule's best spring, outfitted with hot and cold running water plus steam pipes, and Pyrame began the cure...
...Jersey's Monmouth race track, Veteran Trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons had his millionaire charge Nashua running as if he needed the money, and the big bay won the Monmouth Handicap by 3½ lengths. In California's Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park, Jockey Willie Shoemaker eased up and still did not stop Rex Ellsworth's Swaps from winning and setting a track record (1:58 3/5 for 1¼ miles...
...carefully. "Time for jazz," echo tens of thousands of loudspeakers around the world, as the strains of Duke Ellington's Take the A Train die into the background. For the next hour, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year, the world's most widely heard disk-jockey program has the attention of listeners in 80-odd countries. It is the second and more popular portion of Music U.S.A. (the first half is pop tunes), the Voice of America's only regular music program. The words come from Disk Jockey Willis Conover; the music comes from...
...Wiggin, eventually made the point that, like it or not, jazz is a valuable exportable U.S. commodity. To sweeten its sometimes pungent flavor, the Voice decided to introduce the jazz with an hour of good pop music. To find an announcer the Voice held auditions, selected Buffalo-born Disk Jockey Conover, 35. His qualifications: a pleasantly resonant voice, the ability to speak slowly enough to be understood by foreigners with a little English, and an intimate knowledge of jazz; he owns a phenomenal 40,000 records, and draws from his collections for the Voice show. In most parts...