Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
...shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus disaster; best news commentators, H. V. Kaltenborn, Raymond Gram Swing...
Evenings Maney makes the round of his shows. He seldom has time for other people's, has never seen six-year-old Tobacco Road. After theatre he drifts to a tavern, usually a newspapermen's hangout like Jack Bleeck's, where he guzzles and plays the match game for high stakes with his cronies, also gets in a word with dozens of useful newspaper people...
...Died. Jack Buchalter, 53, ill, impoverished, honest half brother of Racketeer Louis (Lepke) Buchalter; and his wife, Zilpah, 48, by their own hands (gas); in The Bronx. Often a spectator at Lepke's trial. Brother Jack had no connection with his narcotic or other rackets, made his living as a hardware salesman...
...Hodder's aggregation has every chance of repeating its past upsets for McGILL is not the strong team which swept away the League's championship last winter. Though it still boasts some of the country's fastest and tricktest combinations, it lacks such stars as Hughie Farquharson. Ken Farmer Jack McGILL, the Crutchfield brothers, Paul Pidcock , and Russ McConnell...