Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Multilingual Jack Soble, who entered the U.S. from Japan in 1941 and became a U.S. citizen in 1947, was ostensibly a respectable businessman, dealing in animal hair and bristles. Under cover, according to U.S. Attorney Paul M. Williams, he was a Soviet superspy who "replaced" Vassily Zubilin as "a dominant figure in the espionage ring." In advance of presenting the case to the grand jury, the Justice Department declined to specify where and how the Sobles or Albam had spied. But at week's end the FBI whisked Albam away from his colleagues in the federal prison...
...been tracing strands of the web of subversion and espionage that stretched out from Vassily Zubilin. At 7 a.m. one day last week, reaching the end of one important strand, FBI agents in Manhattan arrested two men and a woman on charges of serving as Soviet spies: Jack Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 64, both natives of Lithuania, and Soble's Russian-born wife Myra, 52. Handcuffed, the prisoners were escorted to Manhattan's federal courthouse, where a U.S. commissioner set bail at $100,000 apiece...
Muggs was recovering from a virus infection at his rambling ten-room house in Ramsey, N.J., and his lawyer, Jack Katz, kept mum. But Bud Mennella of the J. Fred Muggs Enterprises confirmed that the chimp's little eyes were fastened on an active future. "The NBC contract is re warding," he said, "but also constricting." Muggs has had so many offers, he added, that he hardly knows where to start raking in the big money. At NBC, where he started at $250 a week, Muggs now makes only $1,275 a week, pads it out with "sizable" income...
...ring foes piled through the ropes, Dempsey engaged each in a heavyweight exchange of compliments. Said towering Fred Fulton, whom the Mauler knocked out in 18 seconds of the first round in 1918: "If I had to lose, I was glad it was to Jack Dempsey." Replied Dempsey: "It was you fellows who made me." From France came Georges Carpentier, a dandy of 63, who plugged not only Dempsey but his own Paris restaurant. From the Argentine came Luis Angel Firpo, 62, once the Wild Bull of the Pampas, now a lumbering giant whose dignity shone somehow through his confusion...
...rest of the ladder includes veteran John Mortimer, promising Enos Richardson, Stanley Youssekovitch, Dave Olyphant, Jack Lapsley, and John Davis, who may get a late start because of an arthritic seizure...