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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texans are that way about quarter-horses, a cow-pony type bred for a short, dizzy burst of speed. Still, Fred Hooper figured that his thoroughbred, Olympia, could run a faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred...
...modest pension at 50, Riders will probably bring about $30,000. And Stan has more songs on the griddle. One is called Whirlwind, and his publishers are puffing it as "just as good as Riders." The ranch of his own, complete with organ, that Stan wanted by 1965, looked much closer...
...Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
Stan took the tip. The first publisher who heard Riders told him it sounded too much like a "funeral dirge or a college hymn." (Actually, its opening sounded more like the first few steps of When Johnny Comes Marching Home.) He kept plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his others at his own expense. Then Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3, 1948) sandaled into the act. He heard Riders and liked it. The song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives...
...Wold admitted that some of his information had come from Walter Trohan (TIME, Jan. 31), Washington bureau chief and topflight hatchetman of the Chicago Tribune. Under the Roosevelt barrage, Author Wold had retreated, according to Elliott, who quoted him as saying: "Much of the material in my book has been omitted, giving rise [in Look] to a completely false impression...