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Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who Is Ted Smith? | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Success Story. In El Paso, Hugh Burchfiel, nabbed in a theater holdup, told a radio audience that he became a robber by being lucky and having faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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