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Bravo for Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...
Similarly, in Elgin, 111. an ex-con and Capone mobster named Rocco Pranno decided to cut himself in on the jukebox operations of young Ralph Kelly. To persuade Kelly of the wisdom of hiring him as "business adviser," Pranno drove him through the countryside with cement weights tied to Kelly's legs, threatening to drop him over a bridge. Committee investigators reported that Kelly's annual jukebox profit before Pranno was $16,000; afterward it dropped...
Last week as the case neared trial, crew-cut Emmett Watson. 40, made himself look even worse. He admitted that he "dressed up" a story he heard about how "an ex-con up for burglary was now installing burglar-alarm systems"; he could not explain why he wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would...
...Switzerland's 22 cantons last week, this bulwark of the Swiss way of life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue...
...recent years, this College has just carried the system of coddling athletes to a nefarious extreme. Whose blood does not boil just a little when he sits down to his chili con carne at the House and thinks of those husky behemoths in their ivied retreat masticating on quantities of chateaubriand and Double Lamb chops...