Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Longden, an old man in his trade, may not be the best jockey in the U.S., but he has won more races in 1947 than anyone else. At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off. He wears tailor-made leather jackets with tassels, talks out of the side of his thin-lipped mouth, sports a $2,000 diamond ring on one hand. Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down...
...parade. Like Ty Cobb and Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against him. A bargain horse (he cost $5,000), Man o' War won 20 of his 21 starts in his two years of racing...
Just as he was beginning to catch on as a wisecracking Buffalo disc jockey, the Army caught up with him. He was put into a G.I. entertainment unit trailing Benny and Hope around the Pacific...
Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...
...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...