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...that he owned a startling 27% investment in records he had played on "Bandstand." He didn't say any of this was kosher; he just said it wasn't against the law. As he noted later in "Rock, Roll & Remember," his autobiography: "A record company could give a disc jockey $100,000, a list of records with how often to play each one, and it wasn't illegal." He informed the committee that he had divested himself of all outside interests. More important, he was courteous and efficient throughout. At the end, Chairman Orrin Harris called him "A fine young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philly Fifties: Rock 'n Radio | 7/14/2001 | See Source »

...Knows Sumo? The Jockey Underpants Ad Would Be Memorable There is something so last century about the two-sport athlete. Bo Jackson. Deion Sanders. Michael Jordan. Perhaps it was '90s irrational exuberance that caused American jocks to ask themselves: Why excel at just one sport when you could be mediocre at two? That had economists wondering if 30-year-old retired sumo wrestler WAKANOHANA's hankering to play in the NFL could be a harbinger of impending Japanese prosperity. The former grand champion has said he's been more attracted to the gridiron than the dojo since boyhood. It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...curvy figure and, to put it lightly, she's always turned on. But she has a hard time getting out, her biggest fear is power outages and she kisses like, well, a computer screen. On the other hand, although LiLi, MTV Asia's digitally animated video jockey, is a mere projection on the wall in a Singapore studio, I am flirting with her. And she's flirting back. And I'm trying to figure out what makes her tick. Is there someone behind a curtain orchestrating her every gesture? "No!" she insists, "I have my own mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 101 Pixels of Fun | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...work. He doesn't do anything but smoke." (Bing just shrugs when I ask if it's true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave," he explains. "Everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125. This weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Never was there so unlikely a horse-racing champion as Seabiscuit. He was undersize, injury prone, had a flayed foreleg and a broken-boned, one-eyed jockey. Yet, thanks to a gifted trainer, Seabiscuit topped his career by beating War Admiral in a sensational meeting in 1938. Hillenbrand's prose is often breathless and overwrought, but readers should ride this one to the wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seabiscuit | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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