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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...
...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...
...Last month the New York Legislature, at the behest of the Catholic Church which had just helped close all Manhattan burlesque shows (TIME, May 10), hastily passed a certain Dunnigan Bill. This would have empowered New York City's Commissioner of Licenses to close, singlehanded, any play he considered "immoral," padlock the theatre where it was shown. Mobilized public sentiment persuaded Governor Herbert Lehman to veto the bill last fortnight...
...dozen boats on which to welcome him home. The Press, always charmed by the slick little politician whose neat phrases helped them in making a living, was represented by a turn-out of reporters surpassed only by that given Charles Lindbergh and Edward of Wales. And, inexplicably, John J. Dunnigan, leader of the Democratic majority in the State Senate, calmly holding his political life in his hands, climbed aboard the Manhattan. It was he who took Jimmy Walker, natty as ever in a pinstriped, pinchback suit, out of the clutches of a customs officer, led him to a microphone...