Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners were not so happy about it all. The elated boxing promoters announced that the experiment would be repeated at next week's Jake LaMotta-Bob Murphy fight. The fight can be seen only in New York's Yankee Stadium or by paid admission, at the eight TV-equipped theaters...
...speech after speech was that "Sure, he has made mistakes, even as you and I" (Kerr), but that "he is as brave as he is humble." In fact, humble-with the "h" silent-was the word for Harry at Denver. It was not the word for the Democrats. Boss Jake Arvey, grinning as the Democrats chose his Chicago bailiwick for the 1952 convention, said: "This isn't a smile of victory, it's a smile of confidence." Bill Boyle, the Democrats' national chairman, announced that "voting trends" and reports from party leaders in every state, "point conclusively...
...beefy Al Horan, Cook County committeeman and bailiff of the municipal court, as Kennelly was busy taking bows. "You can thank the party. I gave you 20,000 votes this afternoon in the 29th Ward. The West Side did it, Mr. Mayor. . . Where's Arvey?" Bald little Jake Arvey, until recently boss of the Cook County machine, pushed forward. Cried Horan: "Here's the greatest little Democrat in Chicago...
Like Sugar Ray Robinson, Chicago's Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson...
...muscled in by the simple method of eliminating the previous owner, James Ragen. In 1946, Ragen told police that if he was killed, the men responsible would be Tony Accardo, Jake Guzik, and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Ragen was shot down in a noisy ambush on a South Side Chicago corner in 1946, then poisoned in his hospital bed when he showed signs of recovering from his wounds. "After his death," concluded the committee, "the mob took over and that was that...