Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From its clattering bowling alleys to its reeking card rooms, Bensinger's Recreational Amphitheater on Chicago's Randolph Street is a male refuge in a world that is rapidly going to the dolls. There, fly-blown velvet curtains shut out the flickering neon of The Loop; cigar smoke hangs like a grey curtain of decency between the elbow benders and the ripe, oil-painted nudes behind the bar. Cluttered with old-fashioned sporting prints and spittoons, Bensinger's is a comfortable clubhouse for pool sharks, poker players, three-cushion wizards, and foul-air fiends of every variety...
...Hiatus. With the small patient under ether, Dr. Swan made a huge incision to open chest and abdomen. He pulled out a loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...
...biggest in the U.S. Like Manhattan's William Zeckendorf, Rubloff is a man for grandiose projects, built Chicago's $15 million Evergreen Park shopping center, planned and redeveloped North Kansas City, Mo., launched Chicago's $200 million project to make a "magnificent mile" near the Loop, the city's most spectacular shopping district...
...flooded with irate letters. Each letter was accompanied by a broken wristwatch marked "Bulov 17" on the dial. Bulova needed only one look at the misspelled trademark to see that they were fakes. Since most of the letters were from Chicago, Bulova hired private detectives to roam through the Loop area looking for the counterfeit Bulovas. Before long they picked up 250 from sidewalk peddlers. Last week Chicago police arrested William Furie, 51, as the ringleader of a group that had sold at least 100,000 phony Bulova watches...
...week-the traditional kickoff for Christmas buying-up 30% over last year. New York stores were packed; Atlanta's big Rich's department store had the greatest single-day volume in its 87-year history; and a record turnout of 800,000 shoppers jammed Chicago's Loop...