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Feb. 21, 1961: Jim Murray writes a second column about jockey Johnny Longden. “Johnny has to be one of the super athletes of our time. Unlike golf, croquet or cribbage, riding racehorses is not normally considered an old man's game,” Murray says. March 7, 1961: Following up on Gene Fullmer’s victory over Sugar Ray Robinson, Murray writes: “The last day was such an incredible carnival of Dixieland bands (Al Hirt's), tap dancers (Eleanor Powell), crooners (Nat Cole) and general merriment that the casual visitor might have thought Sugar Ray was in training for the Mardi Gras instead of a championship fight.” ALSO |
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Yours is a true community service, Larry, returning Jim Murray to the Times, albeit electronically. The Times proper should take note and make mention in print. Consider yourself encouraged to speak to the powers that be on behalf of the legion of fans Murray still has, as the classics do, to get the word out one morning edition soon, say in an article on you, your efforts reintroducing LA to itself, and Murray. It would be a crime if they, like me, could not catch up on columns they would be missing a second time around, too.
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