Word: race-track
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...keep the pop-music business popping, record makers and agents nurture promising young singers with the elaborate care that race-track trainers lavish on two-year-olds. When young singers are signed, they usually get new, tongue-tempting names, are advised how to dress and behave before the great public and carted off to woo the hit-making disk jockeys in a well-traveled circuit of key pop cities: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh (neither New York nor Washington is regarded as a reliable pop town). If, as a result, a singer "lights the board...
...talk of the town is 'orses, 'orses, 'orses," the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane could not restrain his admiration for the way the British press writes about 'orses. For readers of his syndicated column back home, Pulitzer Prizewinner Delaplane described the basic English race-track story...
...black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph, "that the murder is gang war with the lid off . . . The razor and knuckle-duster gangs have turned to firearms." The Daily Sketch wondered: "Should the police now be armed?" Few London crime reporters could resist comparing their city to Chicago...
...newspapers were whooping it up, but the fact is that Scotland Yard has for more than a year been concerned by a London gang war that centers around a shakedown racket involving race-track bookies...
...special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, and Ways will replace him as London Bureau Chief and senior European correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Max Ways, 50, got his start as a handicapper and journalist in Baltimore, a good race-track and newspaper town. The son of the late city editor Max Ways, who gave H. L. Mencken his first job on the old Herald, young Max cubbed on the rival Sun. By the time World War II started, he was writing editorials for the Philadelphia Record. He served through...