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Last week, when Jockey Eddie Arcaro and Hill Prince pounded home a length and a half ahead of Middleground in the Withers mile at Belmont, Handicapper Campbell had a word for it: "Luck plays the biggest part. I figure, guess and be damned...
Died. Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 41, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete, full-time amateur jockey and sportsman; of drowning; in Devonshire, England. Renowned for his awkward, wildly jouncing style, "Nitty" Mildmay at one time ranked fourth on the nation's list of jockeys...
Smith can paint a miniature portrait with a few swift strokes, as in last week's column about little Bill Boland, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands...
After the contract of WBMS's Disc Jockey Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra, runs out this month, Lasker will carry "absolutely no classical music of any kind." This week, though five music students were protesting the station's new policy with a picket line, most Bostonians accepted the switchover calmly. Said one: "Rather than listen to high-pressure, ear-jarring sales talk, I, like other Bostonians, will take my recordings at home without commercials...
...right, kid, you asked for it, and here it is. The ads are lying. I'm a liar. The picture stinks. You wanna know why the picture stinks? Because they took a story about a jockey by Ernie Hemingway. It was called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good...