Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jockey's Heartache...
...fortnight ago, sportsmen at South Carolina's Branchdale Jockey Club revived the ancient sport of goose pulling (TIME, March 10). Last week they found that they had ruffled far more feathers than those on the neck of the goose. Indignant letters poured into the state's newspapers. The S.P.C.A. asked that a warrant be drawn up, charging Edward O'Brien, president of the club, with cruelty to animals. O'Brien apologized: "We are as sorry as possible. . . . Nothing of this kind will ever happen again...
...disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. reached deep into his pile of old records and played a 1932 piece called Heartaches. It had a bouncy tune and a catchy whistling chorus. Soon dozens of requests were coming in for Heartaches. Decca hurriedly began pressing copies of the old recording. In the past six weeks it has sold over 500,000 copies...
...post time drew near, he told Jockey Doug Dodson to stay off the rail, and added: "If none of the other horses make any real pace, just go ahead out there in front and stay in front." The jockey did just that. He never had to use the whip. He gave the big horse his head, and in track-record time Armed (TIME, Feb. 17) ran away with the $50,000 Widener Handicap, Florida's biggest race. Next stop, after a 14-hour plane trip: California and this week's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...