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...down, seized the loud one by the scruff of the neck; "I'm old enough to be your father, but I'll lay you cold if you don't apologize. You're not talking to George Luks now, you're talking to 'Chicago Whitey,' the best barroom fighter in America. . . ." When most of the scandalized audience had fled, Artist Luks subsided, laughed, smoked a cigaret and then-for the benefit of a few adoring disciples-painted a skillful little sketch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...lead, used its six points as an excuse for taking chances. The chances turned out well. Colgate's guard, Captain Bob Smith, blocked a Brown punt and Chase recovered it behind his own goal line for a safety that cost Brown two points. Colgate's Left Halfback Whitey Ask intercepted a Brown pass on his 20-yd. line and Colgate rattled off another touchdown, with spinners and reverses. Brown, trying for a touchdown at any cost, passed on fourth down instead of kicking and lost the ball on its 36-yd. line. A pass, Conroy to Bodganski, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson who won the Manhattan A. A. U. marathon last fortnight? The crowd discussed its favorites and perspired, for the temperature was 77°. The blazing spring sun would do the runners no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Albert ("Whitey") Michelsen, cadaverous, spook-faced, 35-year-old marathoner: the Metropolitan A. A. U. 26-mile marathon in Hudson County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform Mayor (John Purroy Mitchel). Last week there was as yet no indictment in the three-week-old Bischoff case, and Boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: The Lady & The Tiger | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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