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...Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Santa Anita's San Felipe Stakes (on Windy City II) and the San Marcos Handicap (on Hill Prince); at Arcadia, Calif...
Towers himself produces about 35 shows in Britain (TIME, July 7, 1947), and he owns the foreign rights to some 100 more. They range from such cultural items as Sir Thomas Beecham's classical disk-jockey show to a blood & thunder crime series starring Orson Welles. Of the London-made programs, only two-Welles's The Black Museum and The Gracie Fields Show-are heard on a U.S. network (Mutual), but many of the others have been sold to individual U.S. stations. In turn, Towers exports to Britain and the Commonwealth nations such American series as The Hardy...
Most of Cott's bombs have produced more whistle than blast. Among them (on radio): a weekly children's newscast by H. V. Kaltenborn ("Good morning! Last week two bad men tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney and Arthur Treacher; programs by Poet Carl Sandburg (folk songs), Eleanor Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only...
Boots Malone has top billing. Set at a Maryland race track, it is the story of a young boy and a hardboiled jockey's agent, bound together by the thrills of horse racing. There is little of the traditional "Win the big race" story. When the climactic dash down the homestretch begins in this film, it is commonly accepted that the hero's horse will win. The race has been rigged, fixed...
Boots Malone (Columbia) is a horse-racing movie, sired by any of a dozen others and damned by the resemblance. It tells of a jockey agent (William Holden), tarnished and down on his luck, and a runaway rich boy (Johnny Stewart) who wants desperately to be a winning jockey; of the race track's poverty-row "characters" who chip in to buy a potential champion; of the crooked gamblers whose attempt to fix the big race through Holden conflicts at the last moment with his fatherly affection...