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...Turn the Set Off." Todd Storz first got interested in radio as a ham operator. After a three-year stint in the Army, he passed up the family brewery to take a whirl at being a disk jockey. He lasted only a short while after advising a woman who had written in to complain about his record selections: "Ma'am, on your radio you will find a switch which will easily turn the set off." In 1949, after working for another station as a salesman, Storz heard that Omaha's pioneer KOHW was on the block...
...paid $25,000 for WTIX, New Orleans' "good-music station." He substituted the Storz for mula for symphonies and sonatas, soon had other local stations imitating him. Encouraged by Storz to try out new "refinements," i.e., audience-boosting giveaways, WTIX recently assigned one of its six disk jockeys to throw away dollar bills from a downtown rooftop at rush hour. When the disk jockey was hauled off to jail for stopping traffic, 1,000 sympathetic listeners were persuaded by WTIX to go down and bail him out. WTIX fans also boosted the station from eleventh to first place...
...Paced smartly by veteran Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Leslie Combs's Nashua romped to an easy two-length victory in the Camden (N.J.) Handicap, won $22,750 and boosted his earnings to a world's record $1,100,365, just $14,605 more than Citation put away before he retired...
Down the back stretch, Needles was still lost in the pack while Fabius, a speed horse, was opening a great gap on the fast track. The chalk players could barely see through their tears. But Jockey Erb did not get flustered. His mount was moving nicely and he saved ground, waited until they reached the stretch turn before he asked the big question. Then, for a terrible second, Needles seemed to spit the bit out once more. Erb cracked the whip in his ear to get his mind on his work. Needles got the idea...
...year ago, Leslie Combs's four-year-old champion, Nashua, seemed determined to let nothing stop him from winning the $55,200 Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica. He stumbled coming out of the starting gate and fell to his knees. Another horse might have quit. Not Nashua. Under Jockey Ted Atkinson's urging, he came on to outlast a fast field and finished a head in front of Alfred...