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Like several million other doubters, sad-faced Jockey Eddie Arcaro didn't believe that Assault was as good a horse as his record said he was. Like the other doubters, Arcaro had never ridden him. The horse that began the season by winning the Big Three-the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes-had been so-so ever since. It took less than two minutes last week to change Arcaro's mind, and almost everybody else's. In the $25,000 (winner-take-all) Pimlico Special, with Arcaro up for the first time, Assault came...
Unloved Arcaro, who is expected to win and damned if he doesn't, has earned a million dollars at 30. Unlike most jockeys, he has hung on to a lot of it. In his 14 years of racing, he has once been ruled off all tracks for a year for rough riding. This summer he decided to take life easier. He quit as contract rider for the famed Greentree Stable, now sleeps until 9 a.m. instead of rolling out at dawn to gallop horses. His only flaw as a jockey: he sometimes tries to ride cheap horses...
...news was all over Manhattan's better bars; Toots Shor's was loud with it: Edward Britt ("Ted") Husing, one of the greatest sports oracles in broadcasting history, had turned disc-jockey.* Station WHN told about it in full-page ads in the Times and Herald Tribune, in big spreads in 24 other New York area dailies...
...years ago he would not have sat at the same bar with a disc-jockey. In his autobiographical Ten Years before the Mike (1935), Husing wrote (in praise of early WJZ programs): "We never played phonographs into our mikes, but always gave the public genuine acts." But last week, after finding himself out of a job, Ted had changed his mind. Said he: "I'm not losing any dignity as a disc-jockey. At 44, I'm tired of glamor and glory. At CBS I was the highest paid sports announcer in the business, and I only...
...just make the announcements quietly and charmingly." To help him he has one of the most carrying voices in radio. So far he has played mostly Crosby, Sinatra, Como, and top tunes arranged by top bandsmen. "This," he explains, "is because I intend to be a dignified disc-jockey." Dignity is paying off. Two new sponsors have signed up since the show started. That makes eleven. And fan mail has been almost as enthusiastic as the ditty Ted had tailor-made for the start and finish of the show. Excerpts...