Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is the Junior whose wife is working in the payroll department at Suffolk Downs. . . . How about getting us some hot tips...
...past three years a chestnut colt with a long blond tail has earned twice as much money as the President of the U.S. Last week, in winning the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, Warren Wright's Whirlaway upped his lifetime earnings to $454,336 and eclipsed Charles Howard's Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in the history of horse racing. Owner Wright turns 10% of Whirlaway's earnings into war bonds...
Died. Charles Henry George Howard, 35, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire; bombed while on active war service in England. He succeeded to his title at the age of 11 when his father was killed in World War I; his son, 6, succeeds...
...Baseball League, were adopted at last. Their orphanage dates back to 1935, when Boston Grocer Charles Francis Adams (not to be confused with onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, no kin) took over controlling interest in the Boston Braves. Grocer Adams also owned Boston's sumptuous Suffolk Downs race track. That made him, in the eyes of Baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a greenbacked Satan. In governing baseball's affairs, Judge Landis has always had one rigid rule: no one connected with horse racing may own a major-league ball club...
...bother with that? It's not their kind of music. You'll see what I mean when you hear them get together or a last chorus of, say, Muskrat Ramble with everybody in there driving for all he's worth. It's like a photo finish at Suffolk Downs, it can be so exciting. Jimmy McParland has the lead, and his cornet rips out what you'll recognize as the melody if you can follow the chord sequence. 'George Brunics makes a background foundation on trombone, long, deep, throaty notes which you won't ever hear Tommy Dorsey play...