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Pepper Street Gangman. It ran in the family. His older brother, Mack, was second in the 200-meter run at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Jackie was a broad-jumper who once set a Southern California junior college record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Meantime, the Diamond gang's central liquor dump was found, $5.000 worth of beer, whiskey and wine confiscated in an outhouse behind the Aratoga Inn, near Cairo, where Diamond was host. And it began to appear that the bullet-riddled gangman, whose life was at first despaired of, would live to stand trial. Amazed at his recuperative powers, said his doctor: "He's lead proof. They can't kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New York v. Diamond | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Dismissed, Gangman Capone posed for photographs, smiled happily. Still pending on appeal is his sentence to six months in jail for contempt of Federal court (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unknown Character | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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