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<Jtllens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. News (Cir. 209,165) LOOK WHAJ'JS BBQpME OF SALLY SALLY McCLOSKY made good jnfsa. big way by becoming one of the featured ballerinas e\ The Sapds. in Las Vegas. For lacic of ?╜ practice bar, she uses the diving board at the hotel pool. m [relay 7-5371 "?√ß?╟≤_ QurcPl'- New York NEW MfRK, N. Y ll TEfpjRAI*?Σ≤ c'l|$. 63,107 1 pSvTTIN* CORNERS By Chuck Connors* DeSpirito-Lester Duel Awaited Apprentices to Hook-Up in Florida. Stars in New Englarid and New York. Jimmy Donn Excluded at Own Track. TROPICAL PARK, Coral Gables, Fla., Dec. 15.?╟÷The eagerly awaited battle between the two apprentices, Tony DeSpirito and Willie Lester for riding honors, will be launched on Christmas Eve. Lester, who is a New York development, and the swarthy skinned youngster from the New England sector, who is showing the way to all American riders, were to have started, tomorrow. The drum beats of the publicity department were stilled when DeSpirito was grounded for foul riding. This meeting of the two will be a welcome Christmas gift for Tropical Park and something of a bonanza for the visiting turf scribers, who, by the way, have separated into two camps. The outlook for the New Englander to top the record is none too promising, for time is short and with the arrival of some of the older and more experienced saddle stars on the winter scene choice mounts will be not too plentiful. The battle between the two youngsters should be something worth while. Lester, who hails from West Virginia, was the toast of Bowie, where his riding feats were among the features of the meeting beset by more set-backs than many tracks encounter in a lifetime. Steve Dimauro, who earlier in the season at the New York tracks showed promise, resumed riding here today. This youngster figured in the worst spill of the New York season, at Aqueduct, and, for a time, it was feared that his career was ended. The youngster suffered a broken leg, back injuries, and assorted bruises. He battled his way back and, after galloping a lot of horses in recent weeks, reported to the doctors, was passed and returned to lacing. T DANNY VAN CLIEF, the Virginia owner and breeder, is amonglhe latest in racing's ranks to join the list of home owners in this area. He will make his winter home at Golden Beach. The house will be ready for occupancy in January. ..Jake Freedman, the little man from the wide open spaces of Texas, will celebrate tonight. He is opening his new hotel, the JSands, at Las Vegas.. Nev.. and, will be host to a raf F "Of luminaries from the sports and theatrical" world., The hotel, according to the "little man addicted to ten gallon hats, is one of the show places of that famed resort.. .Don Yates, acting for the Baltimorean, Charles Gross, purchased the plater Orphean from the Victory Stable...W. H. Perry, who has a draft of horses with Jack Skirvin, returned from a European trip land will be on hand shortly after the holiday season... Worth Johnson checked in from Bowie... iSomething of a novelty occurred here on Saturday when the handle on the seventh and eighth races, jwas identical. The play was SlOjffii^ in each race j. Jockey Sam Boulmetis is leading the jockeys at this meeting in number of races, won. T WHEN A MAN bites a dog that's news, butjj when the president of a racetrack is turned down I for stable room, well that's bigger news. Jimmy j Donn, top man at Gulf stream Park, who was recent-j ly honored by his fellow Milrmians for ifisg civic | efforts and was voted one of the outstandin|p;itizens|l of this city, now realizes that fame is fleeting. Thel Auld Scot Tvas gifted with a yearling at the banquet at which he was guest of honor, and at that time gave no heed to the problem with which he is now faced, where to stable him. The youngster was vanned to Gulf stream Park of which Jimmy is president. The rules state that no yearlings shall be allowed on the grounds unless the owner has three or more older horses. Jimmy is short in that! department and for the present he is riding thel horns of a dilemma.. .Trainer Toward Hoffman,] -who has Ada L. Rice's horses in his care, reports] that the Chicago-owned stable is coming along nicely. He has great hopes for the Washington Park Futurity winner, Mr. Paradise, who will be ready for engagements at Hialeah. The Rices, Dan and Ada, are due later for ajtengthy vacation. " TRAINER RAY DESTEFANO, who has the j Hampton Stable horses here, said that Easy Whirl! developed a fever after his arrival from Bowie. He also said the "Iron Horse," Alerted, will be; given a ball and freshened for his engagements in, the Robert E. Lee and Tropical Park handicaps j for which he was named... Bob Kelly of the Florida j State Racing Commission field forces, reports that! 3,300 vocational licenses have been granted to date | of which 2,650 are for owners, trainers, jockeys,- agents, grooms and others directly connected .with the thoroughbred... Vince Milrick, the handicapper, made his first appearance of the season and compared figures with Max (Memphis) Engelberg... J. P. (Sammy) Smith arrived from California where he spent a brief vacation. He reported that the 2-year-old Count Trim, owned by W. B. MacDonald, Jr., is in Kentucky. The son of Count Fleet and Decor broke a sesamoid this summer and his future racing career is doubtful. The colt may go to the stud. T CHARLIE O'NEIL, the Miamian, was on hand Saturday to lend encouragement to his starter, Air Pine, in the Coral Gables. > He is enthused over the broodmare Wonderment, ah daughter of Questionnaire and Shine II, by Hyperion, who dropped her first foal last spring. TRe ^youngster is by Ariel Game and wfi| be eligible to race in. 1954... Trainer Tommy Carroll is on the ailing list, a victim of the virus. He hopes to be about next week.. .L. B. Wilson came from Lexington, Ky., and reported that Roscoe Tarlton Goose is due next week. The latter, who is president of the Knock Down the Favorite Club, will remain for some time ... Fred Burton, racing secretary at various tracks L in the country, made his second appearance of the] season. ?╟÷_^jtm CJrilli ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Pasadena, Cal. Star-News (Cir. 34,648) 1952 Coast to Coast By.irly .GARDNER?√ß?√ß jy kg i y ow* *i^??r" gar . H&LfWQQP. fere's lovxo/hfs rr&ae*M#the 11 -g-2^, how much progress Marilyn A Mowed/hfs rMdeTW tne it months since this cohimn first I hroke the story about her snlfv famous calendaj^t^Jift^ime she was getting between $|5Q and $350 a weekiM^^^ntieth s Century-Fox. Late in^bruar^^;t5|arl^iii March sheTll ^a^el^^ght<^^^|fe^l(jS^' the Sau^K Hotel n La.-: Vega^^^^weekly : salary of Ji5,000! 1 f time prrm-iK she'll make similar appearan. es in Reno and perhaps Miami-'Beach, Then she'll give the'bovs $$$$ thing^piglft for by flying ^*a|^aj?·^ij "I'll do a song-and-dance act,"' Marilyn told us on the set oh '?╟≤?╟≤Gen.tlei^eri. /Prefer , Blondes." ?╟≤' H s^igig Uvri or tfhee. oi thp six /songs I do in this picture, adcl a:pbp' tune, or -~?Σ≤~-^^-?Σ≤B?╟???..,pfeW0 and move afound a littlegt don't dance Hy Gardner very much, but I do wiggle all over!" , h . Folks within the range of her vojee describe it as a sexy soprano that's not quite as low as her neck line. M-G-M records thought she was good enough to team her with the co-star of the. musical, Jane Russell, in a "Blondes" album. I presume this will.be the first series of disks cut on asbestos. . . . EDMUND GRAINGER, RKO producer, hosted Rev. Father Lawrence ffl McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University (Grainger's alma mater), II and a group of Fordham men including Emmett Lavery, Richard Greene, Ste- 11 phen McNally and Horace McMahon at ts a luncheon Friday . . . Arlene Dahl and W Fernando Lamas check in at Paramount ffi today for Pine-Thomas' "Sangaree". . . i Merriel Abbott's "Calendar Capers" || revue, with Adele Inge, Eric Waite and m Diana Grafton, will open tomorrow at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Las Vegas j . . . George Raft is packaging a nitery I show to open March 5 in Las Vegas. Sammy Lewis is producing . . . Ron Hagerthy has finished his role in Re- H public's "City That Never Sleeps". . . ?║1 Marguerite Padula is back at Charley || Foy's Supper Club after a brief Palm j Springs vis$f . . . Mocambo manager |1 Frank Earhart is vacationing in Las Vegas . . . Marjorie Garretson and Alex El Studer open tonight at the Park Lane || Hotel, Denver, for two weeks ... The || Hollywood Foreign Correspondents [ Assn. holds its annual Golden Globe 1 Awards banquet Feb. 26 at the Am- | bassador,. according to president Bert E Reisfeld .. . . Songstress Gloria Grey I opens at the Bar of Music tonight, join- I ing the show starring srjjjiimic Arthur P Blake. ?╟≤ j THE LANCERS, Jppitol Records E quartet, planed to Travis and Mather 1 air bases over the weekend with the E John Grant Show enroute to Korea to I entertain GIs. Ellen Sutton and Tony La-vellhahm arc, in. the troupe . . . Audi- I tions for singers and Copa girls for the I Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Rainbow room on Cahuenga near Hollywood Blvd. . . . Quantity Photos, headed by John. F. Leopold; is doubling its facilities to take care of/increased business . . . Between Jan. and April, 20th-Fox stars will be on the covers of 19 national fan mags . . . Ork leader Dick Stabile will be honored with a special night at Ciro's on Thursday, attended by many celebs . . . NralTian Luboff has accepted an invitation to serve on the faculty of Idyllwild Arts Foundation this summer j . . Irene Ryan holds for an additional week at the Chi Chi, Palm Springs, and also is booked. foW^Srerurn next fall ...Actor-coach George Brand will be feted at Ciro's tonight to mark his 20th anniversary in Hollywood.