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...fast field of horses led by Red Aril was pounding around the Narragansett Track at Pawtucket, R. I. in the last race one day last week, the track's managing director, dapper Walter E. O'Hara, sat nervously champing a cigar in his luxurious penthouse atop the clubhouse. By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation...
...meantime Promoter O'Hara was getting in deeper with Mayor McCoy and Pawtucket's anti-Quinn Democratic faction. In his weekly Pawtucket Star, O'Hara backed Mayor McCoy against Quinn, then Lieutenant Governor, for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. After changing the Star into a daily last spring, the pair moved into Providence, stronghold of the Republican Metcalf Brothers' Journal and Bulletin, by merging the Star with the feeble old News-Tribune. The resulting Star-Tribune proceeded to pepper the Metcalfs and the Quinn political machine on their own grounds...
...Boston last autumn, Norman Skelly, 28-year-old Pawtucket, R. I. rollerskating rink proprietor and his friend John Shefuga set out to skate to Los Angeles. They arrived, after covering 4,075 miles, two months and two days later, turned around to hitchhike home. Last week in Manhattan, Skater Skelly proudly exhibited memoranda of the trip. Excerpts...
Also, Publisher O'Hara had a chance to pay off some rankling old scores, for back of this realignment of Providence papers lay a long and bitter feud. Last March, a Pawtucket city official threw a Journal camera into the flooded Blackstone River. For reasons of their own, Pawtucket politicians had insisted on building the new City Hall on a low-lying lot, and they did not want their location photographed with water creeping over it. Also in March, Walter O'Hara sued the Journal for $1,000,000 for libel because it intimated that he was working...
Aside from political animosity, there is another cogent reason why the Pawtucket denizens have heckled the Journal so insistently. Both Journal and Bulletin oppose Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners...