Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penny's Ante. The names of some of the owners of the Yonkers Raceway, meanwhile, were made public. Head of the Yonkers Trotting Association and owner of all voting stock is William H. Cane, 79, sportsman who built Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City (scene of the Dempsey-Carpentier "Battle of the Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman...
After seven days of going their separate, well-publicized ways and living in different hotels, Crooner Frank Sinatra and his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner patched up their lovers' spat in his mother's New Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...
...Painter Chapin got fed up with Greenwich Village and outgrew his own imitations of Cezanne. He found a $4-a-month log cabin in northern New Jersey, holed in there for five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small...
Burning Question. In Jersey City, N.J., during a heat wave, the Rev. Paul N. Jewett erected a sign in front of his Emory Methodist Church: "Now that you know how hot Hell is, what are you going to do about...
...rebuilding at the rate of about 5,000 miles a year; up to $50 billion could be profitably spent on roads alone in the next ten years. Many of the new highways now planned or building will be self-liquidating toll roads, like the successful Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes. Massachusetts, for example, will start one such $200 million cross-state toll highway by the end of this year; Kansas is considering a new superhighway from Kansas City to Wichita; Ohio is just now launching a $326 million east-west toll road to link up with the Pennsylvania Turnpike...