Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pout-mouthed Jake La Motta is a sturdy fighter with an in & out record who currently holds the middleweight championship of the world. He won it on a fluke 15 months ago from the late Marcel Cerdan (TIME, June 27, 1949), who fought, after the first round, with the handicap of a torn shoulder muscle. In Detroit, where Jake had the luck to win his title, he defended it last week against Frenchman Laurent Dauthuille. Jake was lucky again...
...President turned a deaf ear to a stirring proposition put before him by several high-placed leaders of the C.I.O.-that irascible old John L. Lewis be made a delegate and sent in to make faces, quote Shakespeare and give Russia's Jake Malik the same business he has given the coal operators for lo these many years. Nobody really took the idea seriously, but a good many labor politicos were still wistfully envisioning the thunderous clash which might result. Said one: "What a television program THAT would make...
Middleweight Champion Jake LaMotta was polite last week. Whenever his challenger, Italy's Tiberio Mitri, lunged off balance in the ring at New York's Madison Square Garden, Gentleman Jake stepped back and let him recover. When the fight was over, LaMotta had won a unanimous decision, but the crowd booed him from habit just the same. Said a plaintive LaMotta next day: "I know the fans don't like me because of my poor fights with Billy Fox and Robert Villemain. But I'm turning over a new leaf. I've got a psychologist...
...Jake Shubert descended on Manhattan to lease the Herald Square Theater. They had come down from Syracuse to fight the Klaw & Erlanger syndicate's dominance of the U.S. stage. Broadway, chafing at the syndicate's ironfisted control of 1,250 theaters, whooped the young rebels on. But when, after some 20 years of skirmishes and pitched battle, Jake & Lee* won their war, many producers began to wonder if they had not swapped one tyranny for another. "Instead of Klaw & Erlanger," gagged one, "we've now got tooth & claw...
Life With Father. One Broadway showman who had given the FBI a tearful earful was Producer Oscar Serlin. He has been feuding with Jake & Lee ever since he offended them in 1939 by opening his smash hit Life With Father in the non-Shubert Empire Theater. When he took Life With