Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Londoners tried to keep cool by lying, sweaty and scarlet, on the shores of Hyde Park's Serpentine. Others sped for the seashore, where thousands slept on the beaches. Steve Raynor, a waiter from tropical Jamaica, changed his coat three times and gave up. "It's too hot in England," he said...
...Beach, a Negro with a weakness for red, white & blue berets, is Panama-born, Jamaica-raised, U.S.-schooled (at U.C.L.A.) and the big reason why Mel can make no misstep in the 100-and 200-meter dashes at London...
...Milwaukee, Herb McKenley, long-legged Jamaica Negro, ran the 400-meter National A.A.U. championship in 45.9 (slicing a tenth of a second off the world record). Next day, Negro Harrison Dillard lost his first race in 83 starts; he overdid himself by running four races in little over one hour, lost two finals...
...lanky Negro named Lloyd La Beach (Panama's one-man Olympic hope) burned up the cinder path for 200 meters. His time (20.2) knocked one-tenth of a second off the world mark set by Jesse Owens back in 1935. Next day, long-legged Negro Herb McKenley (Jamaica's one-man Olympic hope) ran a dizzy 440 yards. The time (46 flat) chipped three-tenths of a second off his own world's record set a year...
...murals but portraits. The gallery of John's sitters is a contemporary gallery of Britain's great ones: from Thomas Hardy to Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth. (It also includes some rich Americans and some spectacular unknowns, such as a haughty-looking farmer and a deep-eyed Jamaica girl named Aminta...