Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOCKEY CLUB Sir: While general congratulations are due you for "Weighing In for '68" [April 14], I take issue with your minimization of Our Draft Kennedy movement...
...dancer, the performance of some of the pinch newscasters was worthy of an Emmy, or at least a Hammy, for the best comedy show of the season. Scripts rattled, eyes squinted at TelePrompTers. In Chicago, WLS Advertising Director Frank Nardi made his broadcasting debut as a substitute disk jockey, struggled hysterically to keep up the machinegun patter. Sample: "Hey there! That was the great Ramsey Lewis Duo. . . aah. . .trio. . .whee. . .It's. . .aah. . . . . .three minutes. . .aah. . .I mean twelve minutes after three. . . wheee." At Chicago's WBBM-TV, Salesman Frank Palmer all but burned up the airways. Winding...
...Yorty boosted its namesake, who has his eye squarely on 1968 and Republican Thomas Kuchel's Senate seat, giving the mayor full opportunity to demonstrate the command of world affairs that he has gleaned on twelve trips abroad since 1961. Before minisuited Chris Noel, the G.I.s' disk jockey in Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 25), could even flutter her eyelashes, Yorty turned to a map of Southeast Asia and launched into Poli. Sci. 101, touching on the Ho Chi Minh trail, North and South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. His prescription for ending...
...trial, Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey presented a pair of "bloodstained" underpants that police had found one mile from the scene of the crime. The judge refused to let defense chemists analyze the pants, nor did Miller try them on. Miller usually wore boxer-type shorts; these were jockey type, and looked too small for Miller. But with those shorts, Miller's confession and his girl friend's testimony, Ramsey won the case hands down...
Died. Francis Skiddy von Stade Sr., 82, gentleman horseman and champion polo player, who kept up a lifelong interest in horses, helped set the rules and maintain the traditions in U.S. thoroughbred racing over half a century, notably as a member of the Jockey Club since 1935, and as president till 1955 of the Saratoga Racing Association; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...