Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Had it come to stay? With the movie box office sagging, the RKO theater chain -parent of the Palace-fervently hoped so. The movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace'...
Parnell really buzzed the day that young Ben, who had ridden cow ponies on his father's farm since he was four, thundered down Main Street in an impromptu match race for $5 a side. There also came the day when a riot was threatened after he single-handedly attacked...
Eventually, after pedaling a bicycle 500 miles or so from Parnell, Ben turned up at the State Agricultural College of Colorado (now Colorado A. & M.). There he met a kindred spirit, a rugged football player named Merlin ("Deacon") Aylesworth, whose father was the college president. They whooped it up together...
Ben Jones recognized Whirlaway as a potentially great horse?even though he was foolish and eccentric off the race track, and completely crazy on it. It took three men to put a saddle on him. In the paddock the horse shook like an aspen. When he went into a turn...
Family Stand-Off. Not long after Whirlaway was retired to stud, in 1943, Ben himself began to talk about retiring. Diabetes and the strain of 40 hectic years on the track was beginning to tell.