Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodger-hating ex-Serviceman John Christian, 23 (a Brooklyn resident in address only), put forth his Brooklyn-shaking testimony. He said that after a night game on June 9, 1945, Durocher and Joe Moore, an Ebbets Field policeman, had beaten him with fists and a blackjack, and broken his jaw so badly that it had to be wired together. As further evidence, the Assistant D.A. said that Durocher had paid Christian $6,750 to settle out of court...
Durocher was visibly hurt. He said Christian had broken his jaw falling into a water trough. He described Christian's heckling as inhumanly abrasive-worse than that of the gifted stentor, Ebbets Field Hilda, whose loon-like cries are supposed to carry to the Mississippi. Patiently, almost demurely, he recalled: "As we say in baseball, he had a tremendously loud voice." On June 9, the night of the alleged beating, said Durocher, softly, Christian had ridden the Dodger pitcher, Curt Davis, into a lather:* "Davis is an elderly gentleman in the vicinity of 42 today." Durocher explained...
...Huneik ("Father of the Jaw") because of the World War I scar on his chin...
...Gerald Caplin (Al Capp), who draws Li'I Abner, and Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...
Billy Kepner never liked school very much, so he ran away and joined the Marines at 16. Then he got in the Army, lost half his jaw and won a D.S.C. as a Third Division infantryman in World War I; joined the Air Corps after the war. In 1934 he plummeted from 60,613 feet in a stratosphere balloon, coolly waited for the bag to get low enough so that he could breathe when he parachuted. In World War II, Billy Kepner became chief of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command. He is now deputy commander for air in Operations...