Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days, its 43rd thug-killing of the year. But the newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman, or a mere citizen. He was a Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune's seasoned expert on Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune...
Artists & Models. This summer-blooming perennial of Producers Lee & Jake Shubert is called this year the "Paris-Riviera Edition of 1930." It is a vague lineal descendant of an English musical comedy called Dear Love to which has been added a repertoire of singers, dancers and acrobats, much to the bewilderment of the spectators...
Died. Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, 38, Chicago Tribune special reporter on gangland affairs; by the hand of an unidentified gangster who shot him three times while he was walking through the crowded entry tunnel of a Chicago railroad station.* Twenty years on the Tribune, Newsman Lingle last year "covered" Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in Florida...
...playgoers motored, taxied or bussed into Forest Park to witness the premiere of the "Muny Opera's" twelfth season-Sigmund Romberg's Nina Rosa, which recently had its debut in Chicago. Observers at rehearsals beheld the new production manager, Milton I. Shubert, nephew of famed Producers Lee & Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition is the $10,000 revolving stage, largest in the U. S., built between Forest Park's renowned and majestic twin oaks (heavily insured, dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness...
Schaefer rates as one of the greatest exponents of billiards who ever wielded a cue. He is the pupil of his father, the late Jake Schaefer, often called by critics the greatest billiardist of all time: his education was completed under Willie Hoppe, a former champion...