Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facial tic and gnawed nails; she strips Herzog of his bank account during the day, ridicules him into impotence at night; after meals she is in the habit of applying her lipstick while gazing at her reflection in a knife blade. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is an ex-disk jockey who loves to "yuk it up" with intellectuals, gives Herzog fatherly lectures on how to get along with his wife...
...Hello, Dolly! Everybody is doing it: modern jazz groups, Dixieland groups, dance bands. Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Peter Nero, Al Hirt, Benny Goodman, Andy Williams, Steve Lawrence, Andre Kostelanetz. "I guess there hasn't been a big hit like this since Star Dust," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams...
With a lucky yellow ribbon tied to the headband of his bridle and 128 lbs. (including Jockey Milo Valenzuela) on his back, Kelso lined up with Gun Bow and three other rivals for the 1⅛-mile Aqueduct Stakes, first of New York's late-season weight-for-age races. "He'll beat Gun Bow, you wait and see," insisted Mrs. du Pont. Few in the Labor Day crowd of 65,066 agreed with her. They sent Kelso off at 2-1, his longest odds in 19 months. The odds...
...enjoyed it-with the flat, powerful stride that he inherited from his famous great-grand-daddy, Man O' War. Valenzuela sensed it: "Suddenly, he was the old Kelso again. Suddenly, I knew we were home." So did the fans. "It started way back there on the backstretch," said Jockey John Rotz, who was riding a distant trailer. "That racket-I never heard anything like...
Through the last turn the two horses pounded, and Gun Bow's lead began to shrink-to three lengths, then two, then one. "I knew he was coming," sighed Gun Bow's jockey, Walter Blum. "I could hear his hoofs, and I could hear the crowd. I thought-well, I thought my horse could let Kelso come up and then draw out." Desperately, Blum went to the whip. Relentlessly, Kelso kept coming. At the top of the stretch, he ranged alongside. "Got you!" Valenzuela yelled-and at the wire Kelso was three-quarters of a length ahead...