Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back him on one of his hot days (eight times in his career he has won six races on a single card) have been known to buy Rolls-Royces and retire in splendor to places like Palm Beach and Acapulco. And whenever a big race rolls around, the notation "Jockey: W. Shoemaker" opposite a horse's name is often enough to send it off the favorite. That is just what happened this month when Willie announced that he would ride the California champion, Hill Rise, in next week's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Oddsmakers shifted the odds...
Saturday, April 4 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Britain's Grand National Steeplechase, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro as commentator; also the National Billiard Championships in New York. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Fourteen Hours, Richard Basehart wrestles with his problems (including Barbara Bel Geddes and Paul Douglas) while poised on the 15th-floor ledge of a skyscraper...
Horse Factory. She could always start with the silverware. The Pine Room at Calumet Farm, five miles outside Lexington, Ky., glitters from floor to ceiling with equine loot: the seven Kentucky Derby trophies, six Preakness cups, four Jockey Club Gold Cups, 76 Julep Cups representing feature race winners at Keeneland. Mrs. Markey could also auction off some land. Calumet's 846 acres of rolling Kentucky bluegrass are worth some $3,500,000-and that's not even counting the 18-room manor house, 36 outbuildings and 23 miles of white oak fences. The estate was inherited from...
...most fashionable dancing these days is done at a discotheque, which is really nothing but a highbrow version of a juke joint plus a disk jockey. But this simple formula and the dancing that goes with it is giving international night life its newest sights and sounds...
...floor in a circle of twenty adulatory college students he is nearly irresistible. Within a half hour he was calling students by name; his voice, which had been familiar and accented over the mike in Burr B, here assumed the mellow intimacy of an all-night disc jockey. With the students in the living room, he was at home, scratching his head, wrinkling his brow, perpetually relighting his pipe; in his element. Interpersonal contact is Goodman's religion (it is, he asserts, his primary impetus in sexual activity with both men and women) and he has perfected the establishment...