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...years ago (according to a story Frank Just told Federal investigators) a lawyer with a little mustache called at the News-Sun office and introduced him self as William Goldstein. Everybody in Chicago knows that Lawyer Goldstein frequently appears as legal counsel for alleged handbook operators in their brief and painless brushes with the law. He is also an attorney for Billy Skidmore, Chicago's gambling overlord...
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...
Publisher Just saw no more of Lawyer Goldstein for a while, and presently he forgot about the visit. Last summer, with his sons, he went off cruising for two months on the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, in Waukegan, a sign went up in a vacant furniture store announcing a new Waukegan daily...
Once more the News-Sun's Just went into action, sent photographers to stalk the Post plant. They got what they were after: a shot of Lawyer Goldstein walking out with a batch of papers. Next morning Frank Just printed his story of Lawyer Goldstein's visit to the News-Sun office in 1938. Chicago papers picked it up. One month later William Goldstein announced himself as Publisher of the Post...
Alan Gottlieb '41, president of the chapter here, will lead the Harvard delegation. Accompanying him are G. Robert Stange '41, vice president. David Fleischman '41, secretary, Paul Olum '40, Avram S. Goldstein '40, Irwin Ross '40, William Rossmore '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Max D. Gaebler '41, John A. Rolabird, Jr. '49, Robert G. Nassau '48, Walter K. Rosen '42, Sidney Jackson '48, and Andrew E. Nice...