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...jockey in the U.S., but he has won more races in 1947 than anyone else. At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off. He wears tailor-made leather jackets with tassels, talks out of the side of his thin-lipped mouth, sports a $2,000 diamond ring on one hand. Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down...
...Avenue tailor. Most of all he likes to wear outlandish hats. His current favorite: a Swiss yodeler's hat. Says Jimmy: "It keeps people talking." Unlike most of today's early-to-bed pros, in the evenings Demaret usually heads for the nearest night club-to hobnob with a bandleader and sing a song with the band. Like golf's great showman of the 1920s, Walter Hagen, he never lets golf interfere with...
...Washington, Marilyn Krug, 20-year-old daughter of the Secretary of the Interior, enjoyed one of those girlish honors that are tailor-made for looking back on later. At a ball she was crowned Queen of the President's Cup Regatta (speedboat whoop-te-do) by the very careful Secretary of Agriculture...
...Manhattan, a pair of new, tailor-made doors were packed off to the slim & sporty Maharaja of Indore at his air-conditioned palace. The doors (covered with jewel-like paintings in the Persian manner) were made of aluminum, stood eleven feet high, were large enough for the Maharaja to ride a horse through comfortably, if he's ever in the mood...
...heard it said that Henry James Cumberpatch, a cinema doorman, "affected by the news from Palestine, took a revolver and went out into the street-quite wrongheadedly -to wreak vengeance upon some innocent Jew." Cumberpatch was charged with using the weapon as a club to beat one Dan Cipin, tailor...