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...Loyalty Rider...
...trail, as if it were about to bite. Argosy Editor Jerry Mason, 36, claimed that his January issue had topped the 1,000,000 mark in sales (the guarantee: 750,000). Like True, Argosy was once a pulp, which boasted such bylines as Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard; but its fortunes and circulation had ebbed. Then Popular Publications took over, turned it into a slick, and it started up. Last April, Mason, onetime associate editor of the Sunday supplement This Week, moved in. He borrowed some old tricks, and added some circulation-getting new ones. His latest circulation...
Died. Carroll ("Cal") Shilling, sixtyish, hell-for-leather No. 1 jockey of his day (969 winners in 3,838 races), rider of victorious Worth in the 1912 Kentucky Derby; in Elmont, N.Y. Suspended since 1912 for rough riding, Shilling took to the bottle, was found dead under a horse van near the Belmont Park track with 99? in his pocket...
April. In Melbourne, Rodeo Rider Reginald Cakebreak tried his niece's rocking horse, fell, broke his collarbone...
Official Phrases. Although Wing Commander seemed to understand the ringmaster's verbal commands (for a rack, a walk, a canter), he was getting instructions through his rider's legs and the bits in his mouth. In the trot, Rider Teater deliberately let the field draw ahead of Wing and then clucked to him. The champ, all the prettier to watch for being alone, quickly caught up with the field and passed most of it. After going through all their paces, Wing Commander and two others were selected to remain in the center of the ring. The order...