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Whose racing stable will lead the 1936 list of winners is a question that will he decided next Jan. 1. Whose stable will appear at the bottom of the list will probably never be known, but a likely candidate will certainly be John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin, famed sporting alderman of Chicago. Mr. Coughlin races a stable of 29 horses in and around Chicago. Last week at Arlington Park a Coughlin-owned filly named Roguish Girl won a race. The fact made banner headlines on Chicago sports pages. It was the first race won by a Coughlin entry this year...
Hale and cheerful at 75, only slightly muddled in his recollections of a remarkable career, Alderman Coughlin goes to his office at 9:30 a. m., leaves for the track soon after lunch. His companion is usually his crony and political ally, "Hinky Dink" Kenna. Occasionally, Bathhouse John rides to the track on the front seat of his limousine because the back seat is filled with feed for his horses, to which he gives such names as Sub-Committee, Honored Sir, Official. Why they win so few races is a mystery to Chicago sports writers, who have blamed everything from...
...reader whose primary interests are character and narrative will find the book clear to his reading. From all walks of life a variety of figures illustrates the thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord...
...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
...situation reached its boiling point when it became known that Mildred Gerber's sponsor was Alderman Arvey, chairman of the Council Finance Committee and chief booster of a $15,000 grant which the Opera hopes to get from the city, in return for a radio program supposed to glorify Chicago and its music. Such a gift was badly needed to meet Longone's payroll but the thought of it infuriated many a Chicago taxpayer. Most newspapers were wary with their comments, partly because Mayor Edward J. Kelly is one of Longone's backers and the Opera...