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...sheet" and the "New York Ivan" to the "New York Posterior," the "New York Pravda" and the "Compost." He also suggested that the Post's staff was riddled with subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms, e.g., "Cherry Coke Wexla," "James Jake Ivan Wechsler," "New York Post's General Pinko," and "Pinko Punko." In reply, the Post and Wechsler brought a $1,525,000 libel suit against Winchell, his sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), Hearst Corp., King Features Syndicate and American Broadcasting Co. (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952). This week, in settlement...
...onetime "treasurer" of Al Capone's vice syndicate, aging (68) ex-Public Enemy Jake ("Greasy Thumb")* Guzik, heard that the American Broadcasting Co.'s local TV station in Chicago was cooking up a series on "notorious underworld leaders." Figuring that the description fitted him like a kid glove, Greasy Thumb filed suit to block ABC from giving his life a public airing. Said his petition: "Guzik is not an athlete or actor, not a candidate for public office, has never achieved fame in literature, the arts or sciences, and he has never given his assent to becoming...
...Formerly called "Little Jack," sawed-off (5 ft. 4 in.) Jake was retagged by Hearst newsmen shortly after the death of his brother, Harry ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, a pimp; originally nicknamed for his habit of wetting his thumb while peeling bills off a horse-choking bankroll...
They thus bested the Northern city bosses: Tammany Hall's Carmine DeSapio, Chicago's Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...
...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...