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...September, the Manhattan demolition firm of Lipsett, Inc. sent Big Jim to Pittsburgh to help clear away the wreckage of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway's old Wabash Station, which had been swept by an $8,000,000 fire in 1946. With his 40-ton crane and his wrecking ball, Big Jim was the delight of Pittsburgh's sidewalk superintendents. Every day, hundreds of people gathered to watch him work. The Pittsburgh Press ran a Sunday feature story about Big Jim. The story said that he was "the best free show in town...
...Discoveries. The first editorial offices were in the high-ceilinged front parlor of a narrow Victorian house on Cass Street (now North Wabash Avenue). Tiny Editor Monroe sat hidden behind a rolltop desk, bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking...
Thomas E. Weesner, of R.R. No. 2, Wabash, Indiana, a graduate of Wabash High School...
...went to work for Johnny Torrio, a First Ward vice and bootleg racketeer, running a saloon and brothel (at $75 a week) on South Wabash Avenue. He did his work well. Soon he became Torrio's field general and drill sergeant, and was cut in on a $100,000-a-year profit. Chicago began to hear the newcomer's name. It was Al Capone...
Rockwell, former Wabash, Indiana star, and captain of this year's five, racked up 31 points with 15 field goals and one foul. Dick Covey, Frank Lionette, and Chusk Brynteson also hit double figures with ten markers apiece. Pat Dailey, six foot four inch center, was one tally behind with nine points to his credit...