Word: dunnigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero of The Miracle is two-fisted Broadway Pressagent Bill Dunnigan. Bill always wore white spats, but "he believed that there was in the human heart a greater and deeper emotion than the thing commonly called love." Its name: "Palship." One day, goodhearted Bill discovered a tuberculous Polish girl in a burlesque house, got her the leading role in a movie. She played it like the great actress she had always pined to be-and then collapsed. "Bill," she gasped, "have the bells [of my home town] rung for pop-and me. . . . [And] some little girls with white paper wings...
Bishops & Orchids. By the time loyal Bill Dunnigan was through giving the little girl a big funeral, her drab birthplace, Coaltown, Pa., was jammed with bishops, Hollywood producers, newspapermen, sobbing atheists, tender rabbis. Orchids poured in from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...
...spectators, who jampacked Jamaica's old stands, had poured $821,946 into the machines. It was the largest crowd Jamaica had ever seen and it was a larger handle than even Senator Dunnigan had hoped for. Thus, with a bang, pari-mutuel betting invaded New York race tracks, for years the last stronghold of the bookmaker. Jubilant over an $800,000 handle on a raw-cold Monday, New York Statesmen had visions of a $100,000,000 turnover before the racing season ends, Nov. 2. Envious of the State's share of the gravy (5% of the turnover...
...York's Jamaica race track one day last week State Senator John J. Dunnigan swaggered up to a freshly painted pari-mutuel window, loudly & proudly proclaimed: "Much time has passed since I began my fight for pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks, so I am purchasing the first $2 ticket on Time Passes...