Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a riot in Asbury Park, N.J.'s Convention Hall that sent 25 vibrating teen-agers to the hospital, Mayor Roland J. Hines slapped a rock-'n'-roll ban on all city dance halls. Taking the hint, Jersey City canceled Jazzman Paul Whiteman's "Rock 'n' Roll Under the Stars" show at the 24,000-seat Roosevelt Stadium. Cried anguished Sponsor Ed Otto: "We were executed by remote control...
...Bandsman Bill (Rock Around the Clock) Haley, whose Comets were among the groups shut out by the Jersey City ban, put a defense of sorts on records, in pounding choruses of a ditty called Teen-Ager's Mother. Sample lyrics: "Teenager's mother, are you right?/ Did you forget so soon/ How much you liked to do the Charleston...
...fastest four-year-old thoroughbreds in the U.S. spent a pleasant afternoon romping off with a total of $178,200. At New Jersey's Monmouth race track, Veteran Trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons had his millionaire charge Nashua running as if he needed the money, and the big bay won the Monmouth Handicap by 3½ lengths. In California's Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park, Jockey Willie Shoemaker eased up and still did not stop Rex Ellsworth's Swaps from winning and setting a track record (1:58 3/5 for 1¼ miles...
HAPPY JACK URANIUM MINE, one of richest in Colorado Plateau, has been bought by Texas-Zinc Mineral Corp., uranium subsidiary of Texas Co. and New Jersey Zinc. Fletcher Bronson and family originally bought mine for $1,000 as copper prospect in 1946, once turned down $15 million for it. Texas-Zinc is mum on purchase price, but has already started building processing mill at Mexican Hat to handle ore from Happy Jack and other southeastern Utah mines...
...incredibly elusive. But at the University of Wisconsin he had a graduate student named Robert Kroc, who was not only convinced but determined to put Dr. Hisaw's discovery to use. In 1944 Kroc went to work in the laboratories of the Maltine Co., now part of New Jersey's Warner-Chilcott Laboratories. After an expenditure of eleven years and an estimated $1,000,000, Kroc found a way to apply the pocket gopher's hormone to the human female biology-but for a vastly different purpose...