Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Phalanx' Derby odds took a tumble to 2-1 (Faultless, 3-1; On Trust, 6-1). At that price, he was definitely a horse to beat. Phalanx, lagging less than usual, had just copped one division of Jamaica's $40,000 Wood Memorial. He ran the mile and a sixteenth, apparently under wraps, in 1:43 4/5. His jockey, long-nosed Eddie Arcaro, is the best stakes rider in the business and he is just as intent as Calumet's Ben Jones on winning his fourth Derby...
Youth Movement. In Jamaica, N.Y., Mary Franzen and Katherine Kirschoch, twin sisters, turned up at a dance studio, speedily caught on to the intricate steps of the rumba in their half-hour lesson, their first in 92 years...
William E. Murphy, Jamaica Plain, Dudley Hall House Committee, Freshman Class Committee, Jubilee Committee, Student Council...
...Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, was sued for divorce. Errol Flynn, back to Hollywood from Jamaica for the birth of his second wife's second child, had a broken foot (from tennis, he said...
...Jamaica, to build circulation, the Ridders went out for society news, overruling the local editor, who insisted that there was no society in Jamaica. They had a hard time finding out who was giving parties until they hit upon the idea of paying ice-cream vendors to tip them off every time a housewife ordered more than two quarts. The paper had seven times the circulation they started with...