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...post-time favorite (3-1) was the Greentree two-for-one entry (Hall of Fame and Big Stretch), which finished 9th and 18th in the Kentucky Derby. But a lot of the crowd's wiser money (4-1) believed in Burch and Bold for three good reasons: 1) Jockey Eddie Arcaro; 2) the sound hunch that Bold could have had a better ride when he lost to Alerted by a neck in the Preakness Prep earlier in the week; and 3) the fact that Bold had never run a bad race (three firsts and two seconds in five starts...
...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...
Though she still makes an occasional movie (her most recent is a quickie called Danger Zone), Rebel hopes that the Armed Forces Radio will let her keep her disc jockey show on the air as long as there are U.S. troops overseas. Adds Rebel, who has three brothers of her own in service: "I guess that will be a long time...
...Special Touch, the $15,000 Premiere Handicap at Inglewood, Calif. The Calumet Farm's Citation, losing his fifth straight race, was fifth, the first time he has ever run out of the money. ¶ Mrs. Wantha Davis, who once beat Jockey Johnny Longden in a match race, the ninth running of the Pimlico Ladies' Race, over five other women jockeys; at Pimlico...
Bred to Stay. It was a big day for Jockey McCreary, 30, who won the 1944 Derby on Pensive and almost gave up riding last year after a streak of bad breaks. As he hugged the traditional wreath of roses, McCreary said happily: "They smell pretty-smell like money" (10% of the purse...