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...family retail business until 1970; and Harry Rosenzweig, a close friend of the Goldwaters and longtime Republican state chairman. The report rehashed material about Barry that has been printed before. U.S. Government investigators, who pronounced Barry "clean" of criminal connections, feel that he is getting something of a bum rap. Over the years, it has been reported that he occasionally palled around with gangsters on golf courses or in gambling casinos, and he once intervened to get a lighter sentence for a convicted bookmaker. The series added a little new information; e.g., in 1973 Barry wrote a sponsoring letter...
While in Lewisburg, the elder Hiss made his share of friends, the closest being, surprisingly, the Italian convicts who dubbed him "Alberto" and watched after him. At one point, these friends introduced Hiss to Mafia chieftain Tony Costello, who claimed he had been put away on a bum rap, too. There is the chilling story of two cons, incited by a prison guard, who seriously contemplated killing Hiss until talked out of the idea by one of Alberto's friends. Then, after being released, Hiss faced the frustration of trying to find work with a shattered reputation and a disintegrating...
...Library. He claimed a $231,000 tax deduction, part of which was rejected by the IRS. These actions were not exceptional. When Lyndon Johnson left the White House, he carted away mounds of documents, some of which wound up in his memoirs The Vantage Point. "It's a bum rap," said Mondale...
...Bowl (I think the last he remembers featured Albie Booth running wild against a horde of West Point plebes), that he would root for Yale. Chance, or luck, however, placed a particulalry vitriolic Yale fan behind us who insisted on labeling every member of the Harvard squad as a bum, without discriminating between one player or the next. Harvard misfortune produced more glee. My father endured through close to four quarters of the Yale partisanship behind us, until the last few moments when I noticed he had begun to cheer for Harvard. When Mike Lynch kicked his famous (or infamous...
Instead, I will tell you how I felt. I thought to myself: "This bum had better bring in a pennant. New York has enough crooks, skunks and incompetents running it without the Yankees bringing in another. I haven't enjoyed watching Bill Monboquette and Joe Verbanic playing terrible baseball for the last dozen years. I want to see a World Series...