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That battle is spreading beyond Kerner. Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett is currently on trial on charges of taking kickbacks, and more racetrack stock indictments are expected to follow. "The judgment of the court is a tragedy for Judge Kerner and his family " said Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III. "It is also another verdict of guilt against our politics...
Life in Tijuana has moved in cycles. During the Prohibition era, the Baja California town glittered as a south-of-the-border oasis for thirsty Hollywood movie stars and horseplayers at Agua Caliente Racetrack; Alex and Caesar Cardini invented Caesar salad one evening to feed the throngs at their beleaguered restaurant. But by World War II, U.S. servicemen in California came to know Tijuana as a bawdy border appendage of San Diego where sidewalk hustlers peddled a startling variety of sexual activities and mainstreet bars offered grinding nudes within tactile distance of the audience. The town's foul...
...several decades, Hoover was a figure of heroic probity-another generation's pistol-packing version of Ralph Nader. Unmarried to the end, he lived with his mother until her death in 1938. For recreation, he went to the racetrack, usually with his lifelong friend Clyde Tolson, who became Associate Deputy Director of the bureau; Hoover always cautiously restricted himself to the $2 window. In the '30s and '40s, he began to appear in New York nightclubs, such as the Stork Club, with cronies, notably Walter Winchell, but he would have only one drink, or two at most...
...conceptions. He tells us that sports became big business to maintain a profit. Athletic corporations frantically searched for new markets in the face of spiralling costs, wage and labor disputes, and a dollar squeeze. In the process, Durso thinks, sports businesses like Madison Square Garden, the owners of a racetrack, a basketball and hockey team, an ice show, and boxing interests, fomented a revolution which saw money supplant entertainment as professional sport's raison d'etre...
...stocks. Among them were two former law partners of the mayor, one a federal judge, the other an Illinois circuit-court judge; a Democratic congressman and leader of the Illinois Democratic house contingent; and a high-ranking Democratic county official. This disclosure prompted Daley himself to deny owning any racetrack stock. "I never have and I never will," he said...