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...This year the recordings of Eddy Howard, Frankie Laine, Art Lund, Phil Brito, Billy Eckstime and Vic Damone (TIME, July 21) have become bestsellers, jukebox leaders and disc-jockey favorites across...
...heart and high on the hit parade. Last week, for the second week, the late Fred Fisher's 1913 sentimental tune was the nation's jukebox favorite. Its revival had started with the Harmonicats, a Midwest mouth-organ trio, who recorded it, and a Chicago disc jockey named Eddie Hubbard, who plugged their recording into popularity...
...five horses got away at the start, Assault stumbled and almost dug his nose in the dirt. Smart Jockey Eddie Arcaro quickly pulled him together, but Assault was already twelve lengths in the ruck. The only horse behind him was Stymie, a notorious laggard whose specialty is a hair-raising burst of speed at the end. Assault was carrying the top handicap weight in the race (133 lbs.), but on the backstretch, when Arcaro decided to move, Assault began running...
Notes & Bars. In San Quentin, Calif., Warden Clinton Duffy, hoping to keep the boys happy with a disc jockey program broadcast over the prison public address system, named among available selections: Time on My Hands, They Didn't Believe Me, Till the End of Time, I'd Do It All Over Again...
Just before England's Derby began last week, the stewards summoned all the jockeys and issued a warning: there must be no skullduggery. Nobody had ever before felt the need to issue such a warning at Epsom Downs' big race. But a rumor had gone around that the other jockeys were going to take it easy and let England's alltime champion rider, Gordon Richards, win (TIME, June 2). It was a chance to get Richards out of their hair: they had heard that wealthy little Jockey Richards would retire if he won the race...