Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...Orleans' Fair Grounds, he rode his first race. Twelve days later he rode his second race and first winner-aboard a $52.10 long shot. From then on, he was the talk of the track wherever he went (Lincoln Downs, Narragansett Park,Suffolk Downs, Jamaica...
Minnie and Mr. Williams (by Richard Hughes; produced by John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws...
Outside of these traditional PBH activities the Social Service Committee is also running ten weekly winter camping trips. Heading a campaign to install now equipment in the North Brighton Community center and directing a project to rehalf a stage in a Jamaica plain settlement house...
...working life at the New York tracks but never places a bet, is boss of Pinkerton's New York Racing Service. Since April, when the racing season started, O'Grady and his 300-odd P-men have ejected, or warned, about 500 bookies at Belmont, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Saratoga. For this and other services, New York's racing associations pay the Pinkerton agency about $1,000,000 a year...