Word: jockey
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...whose daily flow of cheery songs, birthday announcements and sugary advice (on such problems as nail biting, gulping, temper) earned him as much as $90,000 a year before blood-and-thunder adventure serials forced him to make his living as a disc jockey* (1947); of a heart ailment; in Miami...
...jukebox and disk-jockey trade, record companies are reviving an old idea: "talk" records. These are comedy sketches or monologues of the type that helped kill vaudeville and weakened radio to the point where television became inevitable. Last week one of them, What It Was, Was Football, was striking for the bestselling list...
Martin Block Show (weekdays 2:35 p.m., ABC radio) brings to the. network a disk jockey who has dominated the Manhattan field for the past 18 years on station WNEW's Make-Believe Ballroom. Veteran Block, 50, has made few changes in his format for a national audience: there are still the same chatty introductions to records, interviews with musicians and singers, and such features as all-request shows, "Past-Year Favorites" and "Stars of Tomorrow." Block has not yet captured a single sponsor for his network program but when he does, ABC promises that he "can earn over...
...Arcadia, Calif., Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 22, set a record that may last as long as Babe Ruth's 60 home runs. On the last day of the season, Willie booted home his 485th winner (in 255 days of riding), beating the 1952 record of Tony De Spirito by 95 winning rides...
...straight-line coat modeled after a judo wrestler's dressing gown. Designer Schnurer got some of her best ideas from Ireland. Says she: "I decided just to relax when I got there and go to the races. The first things I saw were the most gorgeous satin jockey coats in the most wonderful colors you've ever seen. I adopted them. Then I went to the pawn shops. I got some of the most marvelous heavy, cable-knit sweaters there, and even some underwear. When I got back to New York, I remembered the beautiful blue, blue Irish...