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Died. Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...
Native Dancer could and did, though, pounding down the home stretch for the last quarter-mile, the two horses were never more than half a length apart. Reported the Dancer's jockey, Eric Guerin: "After he got in front, he began to loaf, as usual. So I hit him three or four times just to keep him at work." The Dancer stayed on the job long enough to win by a neck in a dashing 2:283/5, one of the fastest Belmont Stakes in history, and just two-fifths off the record set by Count Fleet...
...faces, wear purple lipstick. Their hats are trimmed with swizzle sticks, foxtails and pipe cleaners. Shouting the password "Zorch!" (fuzz-beard lingo for Hollywood's "colossal!"), they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard. In five months "Red" Blanchard, 33, has zoomed from a routine job as staff announcer at station KCBS to a position that his pressagents describe as "uncrowned king of juvenile Northern California...
...While Perón's police looked the other way, Argentina's Jockey Club, world-famous citadel of wealth and culture...
Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...