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Early Career: an insurgent Democrat, he entered South Philadelphia ward politics while still a student, ran the local Al Smith presidential campaign in 1928. As a young lawyer, he represented cops and the city's firemen's union, ran unsuccessfully for court clerk (1928), district attorney (1931) and Congress...
Defense in Depth. In Baltimore, when a fire broke out in the Roosevelt movie theater, customers who wanted refunds formed such a crush around the boxoffice that firemen had to hose them aside before they could fight the fire...
...course (par: 72) were determined not to let Jack make it four tournaments in a row: the 66 only brought him a four-way tie for low first-round honors. Then, while the others slipped up toward par, Jack stayed down in birdie country. By the last day, though firemen had to put out a small brush fire on the course, Jack was white-hot. He carded another 66, smashed the tournament record with his 72-hole score of 266, eight strokes better than the total of Runner-Up Al Besselink. Pocketing the $2,000 prize for his 22-under...
...cigarette off another, occasionally waved his arms, and once climbed over the ledge and hung there by his hands. Police and firemen, called to the building, pleaded with him, but if they tried to inch forward, Jones cried, "I'm going to go!", and his would-be rescuers stood back...
...21st floor, the firemen folded their net. Down in the street, the crowds drifted away. But throughout Ohio, some 350,000 people kept their radio and TV sets tuned in. It was 10 a.m. and about time for the morning soap operas to begin...