Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Duncan S. Devereux '50 of Eliot House and Whitesboro, N. Y., was chosen senior associate Jayvee manager for 1948, while John P. White, Jr. '50 of Jamaica Plain was picked as senior associate Freshman manager. Arthur W. Arundel '50 and Thomas E. Bates '50 were the other men in the Sophomore second assistant competition...
...gentleman named Francis Woodman has a pleasant routine three days of every week. He comes from his home in Jamaica Plain, and walks slowly from the Yard to Soldiers Field, admiring the changes that time has imprinted on the undergraduate and the view. For Mr. Woodman was a Senior here when Saturday football games were played on Jarvis Field and the best rooms were in Grays and Matthews. Many years have passed since 1888, and now he has come back after retirement to watch football practices, attend Sunday chapel, and at least partially relive the unworried college days...
...second and fourth periods proved margin enough as Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team clung to its undefeated record with a 2 to 1 win over New Bedford High School yesterday at the Business School Field. After the game the Yardlings elected James Gabler 151 of Matthews Hall and Jamaica, N.Y. as captain for the 1947 season...
...Philippines. To overcome the world dollar shortage, it has set up a complex system of bartering currencies and goods. The corporation provided the dollars to buy raw materials from Sweden for a British manufacturer, took payment in British goods. It also started a $3,000,000 cement plant in Jamaica with capital in English sterling, machinery and supplies from Canada...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...