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Post by tenfurlongs on Jul 19, 2019 14:31:19 GMT -5
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Post by eye123 on Jul 19, 2019 14:58:36 GMT -5
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Post by eye123 on Jul 19, 2019 15:14:19 GMT -5
The beginning of what was an extraordinary life......
She was born Marie Louise Schroeder of Kansas City. Her father, Harry R. Schroeder, was an ambitious accountant who attended law school at night with Harry Truman. Marie Jean, Marylou’s mother, was a housewife. Marylou graduated from Southwest High School and went to the University of Iowa, but had to come home and get a job after her father died. She got the perfect one: flirtatious wartime disc jockey at station KCKN. “I created a show for servicemen called ‘Private Smiles,’ ” she says. “We played Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra, and it was very popular and made me kind of a star. In those days, there was something called a Hooper Rating, and I had a higher Hooper Rating in that area than Bob Hope.” After a year, the ambitious anchor moved to New York. “She walked into ‘21’ on the arm of Teddy Howard, the theatrical press agent, and three men at the bar were instantly interested,” says Richard Cowell of Palm Beach, one of the men at the bar. “She was unquestionably glamorous.” Marylou also set about burnishing her social history. Howard, who worked for her, spread the word that she was an aspiring actress from “a very prominent family.” Though she didn’t make it as an actress, people say she seemed more interested in marrying a rich man and enjoying herself anyway. “She was a fun-loving girl at all the parties,” remembers Brownie McLean of Palm Beach, another fun-loving girl of the era. A bit of a publicity hound, Marylou was adept at handling reporters. “Tell them everything, but don’t tell them anything,” she once advised an intimate. In a colorful, ink-garnering moment, the petite, blue-eyed Marylou rode a horse up to El Morocco in 1947 and hitched it outside while she partied.
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Post by 1hooper on Jul 19, 2019 16:13:05 GMT -5
Induction into Racing Hall of Fame two weeks from today.
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Post by tenfurlongs on Jul 19, 2019 19:52:09 GMT -5
From Whitney Stakes Day Aug. 3, 2013.
Marylou Whitney (r.) with Susan Lucci (l.)
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