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...After 30 years on the track and more winners (5,090) than any jockey on record, Johnny Longden got the shortest and roughest ride of his career from a maiden filly named Royal Zaca at Del Mar. When his mount reared, Johnny was pinned against the starting gate and set down for the rest of the season with a broken...
...films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine of the Claretian Missionary Fathers. With a few exceptions, he writes in the current issue, the formula...
...holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club. The avenue...
Died. Peggy Hopkins Joyce (maiden name: Margaret Upton), 64, blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan...
...five-column picture showed Britain's Prince Philip in Denmark standing over a simpering nurse named Peggy Goodchild (see cut). But if the Express (circ. 4,042,334) knew what "caused the twinkle in the Prince's eye and the obvious blush on the maiden's cheek," it was not telling. Instead, it offered a ?100 ($280) prize to the reader who sent in a caption arch enough to "capture the mood of the moment in the brightest...