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...Look is the gamble and brainchild of Daniel Filipacchi, 51, former disc jockey and news photographer who is now the successful publisher of Paris Match. His original intent was a $1 weekly with outsized 9-in. by 12-in. pages. But fearing that the magazine's $25 million bankroll (Filipacchi put up 51%, six French partners the rest) might be exhausted before the new venture got on its feet, he decided to lower the publishing frequency to twice a month and raise the price to $1.25. At the outset Look expects to sell 600,000 copies, less than...
...exactly the Triple Crown. But for the winning jockey it meant deliverance. When he climbed aboard Father Duffy last Thursday, Boy Wonder Steve Cauthen, 18, winner of the Triple Crown and just under $5 million last year, had not won a race since New Year's Day. His losing streak of 110 straight races, one of the worst ever for a major jockey, was a stupefying slump for The Kid who once won 23 of 54 races in a single week...
...rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came up with rock 'n' roll. Even the generic name was a perfect synthesis: black slang, applied to the raucous music and then popularized by a disc jockey...
Stephen V.R. Winthrop '80, one of the party's organizers, said yesterday the group hopes to buy beer with South House funds instead of accepting the Anheuser-Busch gift. The group will still rent togas from Harvard Student Agencies and probably hire a professional disc jockey, he said...
...Disc Jockey Dave Willlford suggested on radio station WBSM in New Bedford, Mass., that his listeners should march on city hall to protest recent increases in property taxes that in some cases amounted to 100%. Last week about 4,000 angry taxpayers mobbed the city's downtown for four hours, scrambling up scaffolding at the city hall, clambering on top of the mayor's limousine and waving signs reading DON'T PAY TAXES! Despite two arrests, the demonstrators refused to disperse until Mayor John Markey appeared at a second-floor window and said he sympathized with them...