Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided that Roger was not so terrible. The judge issued a writ of habeas corpus (with a 774-page opinion) freeing Roger from prison, where he had served only 21 years of a 99-year sentence. Judge Barnes said that Roger had been railroaded on a charge of kidnaping Jake ("The Barber") Factor, another character in the '20s' melodrama of crime, which either was or was not more real than a Slavic folk tale...
Charles (in training at nearby Monticello, N.Y.) was reported feeling fine. "The next champ has been in perfect health since he had his infested tonsils cut out of his throat," said his manager, Jake Mintz (somewhat of an authority on medical matters, having once suffered from "coronated trombosis" himself...
...Neither Jake's ready tongue nor Ezzard's health impressed the bookies. Rocky's eating habits bothered them not at all. Right up to fight-time at Yankee Stadium last week, most of those itinerant investment bankers saw the champ as a sure winner. They were giving odds of "3-to-1 and out," i.e., they would cover bets on ex-Champion Charles at the quoted odds; they would accept no Marciano money...
Reserves: Jake, Bare, Eel, Ice, Sweat, Nip, Sacks, Bratley, DAR, Royce, Rolls, Corny, Gwitrtzberg, Reaves...
...Chambers was ill at his Maryland home last week, unavailable to expound the letter. However, a reasonable paraphrase of it in overground language might be: Having received threats from Jake, Chambers warned him to beware of 1) a Soviet apparatus other than Jake's, and 2) the U.S. Government, if there were reprisals against Chambers. Since the UG (underground) was fighting the Ul (another branch of Soviet apparatus) for control of their U.S. operations, Jake might get caught in the riptide between them, as Chambers himself had been. Although President Roosevelt and Attorney General Frank Murphy, in Chambers...