Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome chestnut two-year-old bounded out of the starting gate at Jamaica race track in the first race of his young life. His name was Air Lift, and he carried the brown & white colors of Texas' famous King Ranch. Horsemen had looked him over in the paddock with care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great...
...when Damon Runyon wrote his last stories, they had become as predictably stylized as a Balinese dance. His Broadway heroes, for example, were called Sam the Gonoph, Harry the Horse or Gigolo Georgie; they could calculate the death of a pal as coldly as the third race at Jamaica-but in Runyon's last-paragraph twists and hooks they always proved to have hearts of gold...
Included are such classics as Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Major Barbara, three Charles Laughton pictures (The Beachcomber, Jamaica Inn, Sidewalks of London), and the successful Dark Journey, South Riding, A Star Is Born and The Young in Heart. WPIX will begin televising the series next month, and will syndicate the pictures to stations outside the New York area...
...Robert Winsor of 73 Main Street, Framingham, Mass.; Williston Academy Easthampton, Mass, Storey, James Moor-field of 229 Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Groton School, Groton, Mass...
...Storer of 93 Pine Street, Portland, Me.; Deering High, Portland. McMurtrie, Richard Lempereur of Bellevue Place, Gorham, N. H.; Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Mass. Mello, Robert Charles of 32-43 32nd Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; Phillips Exter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Nebel, Harry Thomas of 129 Jamaica Avenue, West View, Pa.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass...