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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 9 -- Wait A Bit, 4-year-old son of Espino, owned by William Ziegler Jr., easily won the Shreveport Handicap, six-furlong dash that topped the Fair Grounds program today.
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 9 -- Harvard's undefeated hockey team scored its sixth straight victory when it routed Princeton, 5 to 1, in the Pentagonal Hockey League opener tonight. It was the Tigers' second setback in three starts.
1943Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (died 1973)[†]
James Joseph Croce was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he continued to write, record and perform concerts. After Croce formed a partnership with the songwriter and guitarist Maury Muehleisen in the early 1970s, his fortunes turned. Croce's breakthrough came in 1972, when his third album, You Don't Mess Around with Jim, produced three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle", which reached No. 1 after Croce died. The follow-up album Life and Times included the song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", Croce's only No. 1 hit during his lifetime.