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However, for jazz with the stops out, this crowd gets my vote every time, except maybe when you spin a 1923 King Oliver or a 1925 Armstrong plater on your turntable. Which is as good a way as any to alienate your landlord, unless he, too, longs for the days when the New Orleans-in-Chicago Soicety of Upper State Street held regular meetings with the Cook County Choral Conclave and Jubilee Singers, better known as the Chicago Rhythm Kings...
...faulty: his weight and power had grown in front instead of behind, where experts insist it should be. His forelegs were slightly knock-kneed and he ran with his head held high like a show horse. He seemed destined to be no greater than his mother, a commonplace selling plater named Quickly. Since no one wanted the Count, he was put to work to earn his oats...
...selling plater, Big Gus has had few owners. Mrs. Ramsey, who claimed him for $3,000 when he was four years old, has lost him only twice in seven years. Once she sold him to the late Walter O'Hara, Rhode Island's race-track czar, for $7,000, but bought him back the following year-after he had earned $21,000 for the O'Hara stable. Last May Mucho Gusto was claimed for $1,700 but the Ramseys reclaimed him two months later...
...destroyed, but made into pets or put out to stud. Bidding is still keen for good dogs at sales, where a promising pup will fetch 300 to 400 guineas (a guinea is currently worth $4.22). A greyhound pup knocked down for 100 guineas is considered practically a selling plater...
...Belmont Park last week, New York race-goers saw two records broken.. In the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Louis Tufano's three-year-old Market Wise, who raced last fall as a cheap selling plater, outran mighty Whirlaway, skimmed two miles in 3 min., 20 4/5 sec. to break by a full second the North American record set by the great Exterminator in 1920. Four days earlier, in a match between two of the outstanding two-year-olds of the year, Mrs. Albert Sabath's Alsab, in beating Ben Whitaker's Requested, ran 6½ furlongs...