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University Hall wasn't trying to swindle the Selective Service out of three percent of its potential draftees. The Dean's Office dutifully made an academic classication on an arbitrary point basis. But Group IV students clustered around the 50 percent mark, so the University could either cheat itself or Selective Service. It chose the latter...
...shiftless cheat with toplofty schemes, Widmark sets out to get control of London wrestling. He crosses up several minor characters and every major one, including his girl (Gene Tierney). Then he crosses himself up. Duped by Widmark, his partner (Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko) dies after an agonizingly filmed grudge fight with Wrestler Mike Mazurki. The dead man's avenging son sets the whale city's underworld on Widmark's heels in an overlong, anticlimactic chase...
...Ashmouni cotton in Egypt. Ashmouni rocketed to $80.36 a hundredweight, nearly double its price five months ago. When frantic speculators who had sold Ashmouni short tried to make delivery with other grades of cotton, the pashas appealed to the Egyptian cabinet. On their plea that "foreigners" were trying to cheat them, the cabinet passed a retroactive law banning delivery of substitute grades...
...There are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young," says the heroine of Kathleen Winsor's second novel. "One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it." To make a lot of money while she was young, Kathleen wrote a novel called Forever Amber. It sold more than 1,750,000 copies and entertained or cheated more readers than almost any novel about a predatory female since Gone With the Wind...
...fireside adventurer, Fawcett Publications' True and Popular Publications' Argosy are tailor-made. Each month they whirl their male fans away from the humdrum of business, budgets and the family, to shiver with a ski patrol as "They Cheat Death in the Alps," sweat as a motorcycle daredevil shows "How to Ride Up a Wall," cheer for the Old Blue bullfighter in "Yale Man Versus Toro," and squeeze the trigger when "Grizzlies Spell Trouble." The biggest difference between the two: Argosy runs fiction, True aims at facts...