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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...column that named racketeers and pinpointed the clubs they visited. When the machine-controlled Virginia Beach Sun-News reported a gathering of racketeers, politicians and their ladies as a social item, Dunn printed a guest list, helpfully followed each racketeer's name with his criminal record. Says Dunn: ''I put their hoodlum rats around the necks of the politicians and in their pockets...
There was Uncle Jack, who was once a character witness for a man accused of bootlegging. The court records in Montgomery County show that, asked how he made a living, Uncle Jack replied: "We are in the hawg business. We steal a few. We also makes a little whisky, dynamites fish, shoots any kind of game we pleases, runs rooster fights and pitfights, bulldogs and such. We gets by right-near the same as all these old poor-rumped people around here does." Asked how he knew the defendant stole hogs, the record's answer: "Because I sometimes hold...
...track unknown, wiry (5 ft. 5½ in., 124 Ibs.) Australian Bert Thomas, 23, kept a scorching pace for the three-mile run at Dublin's Santry cinder track, streaked to the finish with a new world record (13 min. 10.8 sec.), bettering Sandor Iharos' 1955 record...
...Proving that baseball is not played by the book, Manager Casey Stengel called on Oriole Hurler Billy O'Dell to save the American League's 4-3 lead in the All-Star game. O'Dell, who has an 8-9 record and has never had a winning season since coming to the majors in 1954, got rid of nine men on 27 throws. Bubbled Casey: "He had a fast ball, a slider and a mysterious pitch up from Mexico...
Ohio State's lofty (6 ft. 3 in.), legendary John Woodworth Wilce, 70, who piled up a record of 78 wins, 33 losses and 9 ties as football coach from 1913 to 1928, then gave up muscle nurture to practice medicine, has headed the university's health service since 1934. Himself a seven-letter man at the University of Wisconsin and an all-Western fullback in 1908. Dr. Wilce did more than any other coach to give Columbus a permanent football mania, led his teams to three Western Conference championships. He studied bone mending between sessions of bone...