Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashionable porteños play Canasta from 6, when offices close, until 9:30-just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
Trainer Ben Jones is as thorough as he is wily, especially when preparing one of his Calumet Farm horses for a big race like the Kentucky Derby. He always insists on his jockey being around for days in advance to get the feel of the horse, and to study the strategy that is planned...
...emotion he may feel is kept well under control, save for an occasional sharp word to a bungling manager, or a blast of choice invective to some motorboat jockey who wanders out on the course just before starting time, kicking up waves in the path of the crews...
...Blue Grass Stakes, Old Rockport had the same jockey who rode him to victory in the Santa Anita, sensational young (18) Apprentice Gordon Glisson. But soon after the four-horse field charged from the starting gate, Glisson found himself boxed in by three veteran riders, Johnny Longden, Ted Atkinson and Conn McCreary. The cagey veterans had the young "bug" rider where they wanted him, and they kept him there...
...Dream Is Yours (Warner) is a lightheaded musical as full of color and tunes as a jukebox. It has all been done before-frequently much better. A sort of musicomedy The Hucksters, it involves a radio talent scout (Jack Carson), his Hollywood boss (Adolphe Menjou) and a blonde disc jockey (Doris...