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...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, best known as Frank Costello's psychiatrist; and Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic bigwig, Irwin Steingut...
Immediate reaction to the Long Island revelations was a chorus of denial from the Roosevelt management and a flurry of subpoenas from the Nassau County district attorney's office...
...study by Hofstra College of 1,000 high school students in Nassau County, N.Y. (pop. 672,765) showed that 90% of the students over 16 drink alcoholic beverages. But most are "temperate" drinkers; only 2% to 5% fitted the tag of "heavy drinkers." Interesting statistic: drinking among high-schoolers reaches its peak at 16, falls off sharply...
Cravings & Aspirations. It has changed quite a bit on the surface. From his comfortable office in No. 1 Nassau Hall, Dodds has kept his administrative machinery humming with apparent effortlessness. He has tripled his endowment to $73 million, nearly doubled his faculty to 380, put up the great Firestone Library, added the $1,500,000 Forrestal Research Center to his campus. But all this was merely in extension of the slogan that Woodrow Wilson left behind: "Princeton in the nation's service...
...York Times ("Sports News Written by College Men") and Vanity Fair ("Published for what is probably the most intelligent group of readers in the world"). The junior might even have bought a raccoon coat for $275, a Dusenberg Roadster for $1750, or one of Langrock's Nassau model sack coats...