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Defensive standouts for the Crimson included goalie Ingvars Vitands, half Red Wexler, and fullbacks George McGarrity and Eric Frank. Tech's best chance to score came on a penalty kick by center forward John Lecoq, which went awry...
...home team's weak defense was unable to withstand the scoring attempts by Yardlings Henry Holmes, Harry Wexler, Bill Parker, Geoff Chalmers, "Red" Murphy, and Jim Polese, each of whom added a goal to Robertson's starter to bring the final Crimson total up to seven...
Walter Winchell, on his broadcast over the American Broadcasting Network, announced last night that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy would attack Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, and Louis Wexler of the New York Post tonight...
Died. Irving Wexler, 63, alias Waxey Gordon, onetime (1905) pickpocket who advanced through stickups, slugging, dope-peddling and murder into big-time racketeering; of a heart attack; on Alcatraz. During Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555,537 in 1931-32, but paid only $2,615.76 in income tax (for which U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years in 1933). In the underworld of Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns...
...Irving Wexler had only his own two hands to work with when he started his career in Manhattan's lower East Side. He used them to such smooth advantage in picking pockets that he became known as "Waxey" to his friends and the cops, took on the name of "Waxey Gordon" as he advanced through stickups, slugging, dope and murder charges into the big time. With Prohibition, Waxey muscled into a string of big New Jersey breweries, made his adopted name a byword in the world of Al Capone, "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, and wallowed in a life...