Word: narragansetts
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...solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed Dancer Mikhail Mordkin, Ballerina Chase spends her winters touring with the company, has a summer home at Narragansett, occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer colleagues. Otherwise she works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time on the sidelines cheering on the other members of the troupe. To Ballet Boss Hurok, who has managed everything from a peddler's pushcart to Isadora...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...
...England, more air-raid conscious than other parts of the country, felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...
Died. Walter Edmund O'Hara, fiery, gambling Rhode Island Irishman, onetime managing director of the famed Narragansett Racing Association, who took Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn's election in 1936 as a personal tribute, later brawled historically with him, bankrupting his Providence newspaper, losing his race track, running unsuccessfully for Governor in 1938; when his Packard piled head on into another car near the Taunton, Mass. dog-racing track...
Robert A. Hawkins '43, Belmont Mass.; Benjamin M. Hazard '42, Narragansett, R.I.; Lemuel S. Hillman '41, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Question M. Hope '42, Cambridge, Mass.; Peter D. JOhnson '43, Norwich, Conn.; Howard V. Jones Jr. '43, Waban, Mass...