Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government has all but given up hope of keeping Mexico's treasures at home. Some officials are collectors themselves-and not above turning a fast peso on a good piece. They make smuggling ridiculously easy. Reaching the border with a station wagon full of pre-Columbian art, ex-Jockey and Art-Quiz Whiz Billy Pearson was "prepared to start throwing money around." The customs man demanded only food. "For a case of chilis," wrote Pearson in his autobiography, "I got through the border...
...cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly set up to win $1,700 from the Oregonian, had also sent the lion's share of the loot to Detroit...
...turfdom's grand old veterans, Calumet Farm's seven-year-old Bardstown, responded to the urging of Jockey Steve Brooks, survived a foul claim to win the $137,600 Widener Handicap at Florida's Hialeah Park for the second time (the first...
...remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first time, he broke attendance records everywhere he sang. "I can play Belafonte," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams, "and not lose any part of the audience...
...third act, the playboy comes back from "the sports" where he wins his title, gorgeous in jockey's silks, and Mr. McNamara decides that it is time for him to grow into his heroic pose. In the ensuing love scene with Miss Carroll he plays it straight, and matches her in eloquence...