Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goose. In the next ten years he had more than a dozen others, none of them first-rate until, in late 1957, he bought Hillsdale for $25,000. No one was impressed. Two of Smitty's friends turned down the chance to buy a share in the horse. Jockey Eddie Arcaro politely declined the chance to ride him. But here and there, Hillsdale, a handsome horse of undistinguished bloodlines, began to win. Since September the big colt has not been beaten, has whipped such headliners as Jewel's Reward and Round Table. In all, Smitty...
...hear about the disk jockey who stayed on the job for 200 hours without any sleep? Sure it was a sort of pressagent stunt. But medical researchers are hard to intimidate. They'll go to any unlikely place to get at the facts, and they wanted to learn more-they already know a little -about what happens to a man's mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor...
Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...
Atkinson quickly learned better, graduated from the "leaky roof" circuit to the big time, became one of the finest riders in racing, was national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy...
Born. To Dennis Crosby, 24, Los Angeles disk jockey and sometime crooner, son of all-time Crooner Bing Crosby; and Pat Sheehan Crosby, 26, onetime showgirl: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 13 oz. Last week, Dennis Crosby also adopted Franz Nicholas Gregory von Duuglas-Ittu, 7, his wife's son by a previous marriage...