Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adulation: "I don't want nobody to put me on a pedasill." And he is a notorious soft touch: in 1935 a Broadway character known as Cooney the Boom formed a moochers' syndicate which touched Jimmy for $5 a head after each night's performance of Jumbo and then kicked back 50% to Cooney...
...essence of Jimmy's character, as drawn by Fowler, is revealed in his visit to Rosie, the elephant who had co-starred with him in Jumbo and then turned melancholy when the show closed. "Rosie! Rosie! It's Nosey!" said Durante. Rosie trumpeted and lay down on all fours, as she had been taught to do in Jumbo. Jimmy tried to wrap his arms around her. "Rosie ain't forgot me," he cried, tears in his voice. "Look! She still loves...
...George D. Widener's Battlefield (Eddie Arcaro up), the mile-long $25,000 Withers Stakes, over Jumbo (by a head); at New York, Battlefield's time: 1:35 4/5, equaling the-stakes record held by his grandfather, Man o' War, and three others...
Cease Firing. In West Springfield, Mass., Hunter William Lafar decided he had bagged a small wildcat, tried to collect the county's standard $25 bounty, learned that his trophy was Jumbo, a neighbor's $100 outsize Siamese...
Hampered by an understandable lack of drive and harassed by a ragging Tufts defense, the Crimson alternately sputtered and sprinted to victory. The attack failed to capitalize on several extra man plays; the midfields failed to spread the Jumbo defense and frequently threw the ball away; and the defense held down the Jumbo scoring, but it too displayed some sloppy stickwork...