Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JACK LAMB...
...authority, but he was learning a valuable lesson: power alone is not enough against the best pros. Pancho-leaner and harder than he ever was during his brief career as a light-hearted amateur tournament traveler-ran Tony right off the court, 6-2, 6-2. It left Promoter Jack Kramer with a real problem : Can Tony learn his trade fast enough to make the tour a success? If not, Big Jake will have to go back in training himself, and Tony's first-tour salary will seem much smaller as it stretches out over thinner seasons...
...News. Reporter Lahey soon became known to most of the cops and crooks, bigwigs and bartenders in the city. He earned a reputation as a 100-proof character, in the softhearted, hard-drinking Front Page tradition, who could also turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was killed in a South Side shooting match, Lahey wrote a sympathetic obituary in which he mentioned that the mobster had a weakness for golf and had bragged of qualifying for an Open tournament. At the end came the dash of bitters. "Jack was killed last night," wrote Lahey. "He died...
...Cincinnati Enquirer's City Editor Jack Cronin was at home wading through the fattest Sunday edition (354 pages) in the paper's 114-year history when the letter arrived. He read: "You have by offensive, insolent, contemptuous, defamatory, opprobrious language . . . impugned the motives, actions and conduct of the officers and directors of the newspaper and have otherwise attacked their probity and imputed improper purposes to them . . . you are hereby dismissed." It was signed "Roger Ferger," publisher of the Enquirer. Also fired by Ferger: Columnist James H. Ratliff Jr., who spearheaded the 1952 drive in which Enquirer employees raised...
...McGill team is an unknown quantity to Coach Jack Barnaby, but he observed yesterday that they have never beaten the Crimson. Barnaby added, however, that the varsity has not played McGill for two years and that squash is the most rapidly improving sport in Canada...