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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter how big the crowd, and greet me by name. I have been informed repeatedly of his doing the same for all other El Paso acquaintances of his, many of whom he knew only casually. Some years ago it was my privilege to have a rather lengthy conversation with Jake concerning the predicament that a faulty gland had placed him in; he has a philosophy that enables him to accept his lot in a manner that should make a lot of us "normal" folk envious of him. ROBERT M. JACKSOX Clerk Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds United States Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Doctor Blue Willing's kennel-mate, Air Pilot Sam. This handsome pointer found five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing another. Jake, who had backed Shanghai's false point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Joe & Sam | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Sired by a national champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Joe & Sam | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Free again and having his day in court, Plaintiff Parker began to develop a line of legal reasoning in the libel case which was exquisitely embarrassing to the Tribune. According to Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Parker v. Tribune | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

PENTHOUSE--New England's only theatre restaurant. Tommy's Moren's stella contribution to the funloving populace of Cambridge. Always good food. Never a cover charge. Tell "Boots" McKenna, Jake sent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: with the NAVY Goat | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

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