Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts, earned all of $980. As it always is, advice was available from every quarter, and it all added up to one word: quit. But Johnny stuck around. When other jocks were living it up, he worked around the barns, walked hots, rode as an exercise boy. He learned about horses and, inevitably, he began...
Wherever he rode-and he rode all over the world-Johnny earned a reputation as an honest jock who always gave his horse a good ride. He was up on Count Fleet when that great runner took the Kentucky Derby in 1943; he was piloting Noor when that Irish-bred fighter got his nose in front of Citation to win the San Juan Capistrano Handicap. Today he owns a modest California mansion- modest, that is, for a millionaire jockey-for a time he had a 500-acre Nevada ranch and he followed the ponies around the circuit...
...skim the surface, bouncing along on three small hunks of hull. Air flows under the almost flat bellies, and the boats try their best to take off. Almost any bump can send them soaring. In a qualifying run for last year's Gold Cup, Driver Lou Fageol rode Slo-Mo-Shun V into an airborne loop, parted company with his boat, got beaten up so badly when he slapped the water that he quit racing on the spot. In a qualifying run with Slo-Mo IV last week, Driver Joseph Taggart ran into the rippling wake of a small...
Italy's gilded Communist press, which rode high and mighty a few years ago, was forced to bring out a beggar's tin cup last week. At the start of the Reds' annual Press Month, Party Chieftain Palmiro Togliatti and his lieutenants pleaded anxiously for every reader to contribute generously. Their purpose: "to save the party press." But at the first rallies few Communists and even fewer readers seemed to be listening. The contribution boxes came back only half full. Complained L'Unita, Italy's biggest (est. circ. 390,000) Red daily: "Subscriptions began slowly...
...Sherman Adams (who had just addressed himself to the "millions watching TV") to bring viewers an absorbing, technically brilliant scene from inside the airport control tower and a radarscope-view of Ike's Columbine winging toward the city. Equally expert and alert, NBC's mobile unit rode herd on the President's motorcade all the way to the St. Francis Hotel downtown. Next day NBC beat the other webs to the President's first "live" press conference (film versions of White House conferences are skillfully edited). ABC's TV floor operatives, jostled by delegates...