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...brochure stated that "only a fortunate few discriminating buyers will have the opportunity to own an M5. Production and distribution is limited to 500 editions." BMW denies misleading its customers. "We always represented the car as being available in limited quantities, and in fact it was," says spokesman Tom McGurn. "Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 and 1,300 were imported over a several-year period. In a car market of 11 million or so, that is indeed a limited edition...
...Hoffman's ruefully comic invention. The period is as rich and varied as the turn-of-the-century New York City of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and the range of real-life characters is even greater: Hoodlums Al Capone and Frank Nitti and Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak, Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein, Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Assassin Giuseppe Zangara, who struck down Cermak in Miami while trying to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly reports to Burger on what newsmen covering the court are saying about the Chief Justice in the press room. McGurn keeps a file of negative news clippings locked in a safe in his office...
...handwriting on the floor right now"). At the height of what he called "the Great Drought" (Prohibition), he was earning $650 a week performing in a mob-owned Chicago speakeasy. In 1927 he switched to a rival band's establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s he was back on top of the saloon circuit. A fixture at Aqueduct as well as the Copa and the Las Vegas Strip...
...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...