Word: kase
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAVID O. KASE...
...player that his jaw was broken (TIME, Nov. 5). ¶ Special citations were awarded to the Kansas City Star for its resourceful and dramatic coverage of the Midwest floods last year (TIME, July 30 et seq.) and New York Journal-American's Sports Editor Max Kase, for turning up an exclusive story on a Manhattan basketball bribery ring (TiME...
...Manhattan's Sunday Journal-American last week, Sports Editor Max Kase broke an exclusive story: "Another basketball scandal [is] on the verge of being blown wide open." Kase added that eight to ten men were being questioned, at least four of them "players from two outstanding Greater New York City teams." A few hours later, District Attorney Frank Hogan confirmed Kase's beat: he announced the arrest of players of the College of the City of New York and, later, of Long Island University (see SPORT...
...Kase knew what he was talking about; he was the man who told the D.A. about it in the first place. Kase, 53, a veteran newsman, and sports editor of the Journal for 13 years, had suspected for a long time that Madison Square Garden basketball games were fixed to come out right for the gamblers. A few months ago, he began dropping in casually on gambling joints and sports hangouts, asking discreet questions and listening. With a few facts to justify his suspicions, Kase also turned his reporters loose on the job of trying to discover...
...Kase gave his own judgment in his "Briefkase" column: "A first blush of sympathy for the corrupted weaklings has given way to cold rage because of their lack of loyalty to school and a calloused greed for their Judas pieces of silver...