Word: mcgurn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living person, a nightclub comedian named Joe E. Lewis.* In his youth on the Chicago nightclub circuit, Comedian Lewis distinguished himself as one of the very few who could make Al Capone laugh. He failed, however, to amuse a colleague of Capone's named Machine Gun Jack McGurn, who in a fit of pique caused Lewis' brains to be rearranged with pistol butts and his voice box to be sliced very fine indeed. After that, hardly able to talk. Lewis took a dive into the nearest bottle and pulled the cork in behind him-or so the script...
...Hungary, where he became a government official, Santo had hurled a final diatribe: "Rulers" are riding the American people to the profit of Wall Street, using "labor lackeys and traitor agents" to "turn back the tide of history." Escaping Hungary Santo told New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn that he hoped for "asylum in my own country -America" where he would "take my chances with the American system." No longer was he worried about U.S. "labor lackeys" and "traitor agents." Said Santo: "I think Oct. 23 [when the uprising broke out] was the beginning of the end of Communism...
...News. Reporter Lahey soon became known to most of the cops and crooks, bigwigs and bartenders in the city. He earned a reputation as a 100-proof character, in the softhearted, hard-drinking Front Page tradition, who could also turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was killed in a South Side shooting match, Lahey wrote a sympathetic obituary in which he mentioned that the mobster had a weakness for golf and had bragged of qualifying for an Open tournament. At the end came the dash of bitters. "Jack was killed last night," wrote Lahey. "He died...
Last week, when the New York Herald Tribune's Barrett McGurn cabled the sad story, Maggiorani needed work...