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Frank Just's story is that Lawyer Goldstein told him Billy Skidmore had bought the Bon Air Country Club, just inside the border of Lake County, and meant to turn it into an elegant casino for suburban socialites. If the News-Sun would lay off Skidmore's casino, Publisher Just would find $100,000 on his desk. When Frank Just refused (he says), Lawyer Goldstein threatened to start a rival paper...
...August day Publisher Just got word in Canada that the Bon Air Country Club was open for business and going full blast. Frank Just's cruiser made the spray fly across Lake Michigan, speeding home to Waukegan. Back at his desk, he sent the News-Sun's star feature writer, a girl reporter named Gladys Priddy, to see what was going on at the Country Club...
Lowman's team consisted of Jack Dampier '38 and Bob Osborn of Holy Cross at the guards, Bon Kerr of Okinhoma at center, and Lloyd Olson of Virginia and Lowman at the forwards...
...important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon Voyage." By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year...