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...dollars at the Keeneland yearling sales in Kentucky. Mating the old family mare, Better Queen, to a vagabond called Charlie Coast, Hayward bred Concession in the backyard at Nissequogue, N.Y., weaned her, broke her and mucked stalls for $6 an hour to keep her at Belmont. When the Jockey Club rejected the grand name Hayward first submitted, Royal Prerogative, Katrina and her leggy bay conceded their plainness with grace and humor. Concession would have made it to the races this month...
...named Maria Cuomo, 23, one of the 20 most eligible and "unalterably ideal ladies" on either coast of the U.S. "It's great fun," says the New York Governor's daughter, who was delighted to be chosen along with the likes of Singer-Actress Michelle Phillips and MTV Video Jockey Nina Blackwood. Cuomo, who has worked for the past three months as an advertising account manager at Town & Country, is modest too, saying, "I am certain there are many, many women who are far more eligible than I." Maybe so, but GQ's readers do not agree...
Kelly originally gained access to the booth through a friend who works as a disc jockey at the club. Raised above the floor and surrounded by mirrors on two sides, the booth helps create the nightclub's latest theme, the psychedelic sixties. With Kelly and her dancing partner, an MIT student, the picture is complete...
Attended by about 50 people, the dance at the Sheraton Commander Hotel attracted high school students and grandparents alike. Working with a collection of 6000 records including music from the '30s to the '80s, a disc-jockey played requests all night...
With a compendium this massive, the unavoidable starting point is the familiar songs, the ones that flit by on the radio whenever a disc jockey feels guilty or important. "It Ain't Me, Babe," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Just Like a Woman," and the other early folk-rock crossover songs that established Dylan as a popular artist as well as an intellectual hero resonate as you stare at the words on the page. At once they seem to be both more and less than what they are when sung...