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...Washington's "good music" Radio Sta tion WGMS beamed out the world pre miere of a recording made in the U.S. by a recent visitor, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels (TIME, Oct. 17). On hand as the disk's jockey: Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas, a persistent advocate of U.S. -Soviet cultural exchanges ever since his 8,000-mile jaunt about the U.S.S.R...
...first coined by a San Francisco disc jockey **occurs...
...Julia Street, Jacksonville, if all a man had was a pocketful of losing tickets? Raising a stake was getting to be a tough proposition. Too many short-priced horses were galloping home; too many potential long shots were going to the post at low odds just because a jockey named Willie Hartack was perched in the saddle...
...after only three years of racing, Willie is just about the hottest jockey in the saddle. This year he seems to have a hard time losing. Last week, at Maryland's Pimlico track, just before the ponies were shipped south, Willie had already ridden 385 winners. He is an odds-on favorite to wind up the year as the country's leading jockey. More impressive still, he has drawn a bead on the 400 victory mark, a record broken only by Willie Shoemaker (with 485 in 1953), the only jock to outscore Hartack for the last two years...
Running on his own courage, Social Outcast had circled wide to reach the stretch and raced himself out. He faded and finished third. Aboard El Chama, Venezuela's leading jockey, Raul Bustamante, had rated his mount carefully and saved ground on the inside; now he moved up smartly. Prendase had enough left to make a fight of it, but not quite enough to get his head under the wire in front of the fast-driving El Chama...