Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capone syndicate. Headquarters: Chicago. Command and staff: the heirs of Al Capone-vulture-eyed Tony Accardo; dapper Charles Fischetti, Al Capone's cousin; Jake ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik. The Capone Syndicate's specialty: bookmaking. with a secondary interest in policy wheels...
...Pattern. Many of Big Crime's big men have paid Kefauver the compliment of disappearing. Jake Guzik vanished from the steam room next door to Chicago's Crime Commission, where he conducts his business over an ivory-handled telephone with a towel around his sagging middle. Charlie Fischetti could be found neither at his Miami estate, nor in Manhattan's Stork Club, nor in the duplex penthouse atop 3100 North Sheridan...
Meanwhile, Sugar's long left fist had been poking out, flush and regularly, into the solid features of Jake the Bull; Jake began to show signs of wear. In the ninth, Sugar turned loose his right. From then on, the question was not whether Jake could win but whether he could preserve his ten-year record of never having been knocked flat...
...Intervention. For Jake LaMotta, making the best fight of his plodding career, the eleventh and twelfth rounds were nightmares: Sugar Ray hit him with everything-jabs, hooks, straight rights, curving, underhand bolo punches-from the most varied locker of punches in boxing. Any ordinary fight would have been stopped by the referee in the eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found...
...Jake's blonde wife Vicki, a top contender in the "Mrs. America" beauty contest last year, was at the ringside, but could not watch the last two or three rounds. "I just put my head down and covered my face with my hands," she said. "I was glad when they stopped...