Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he offered to buy La Presse for a friendly newsman. Another man who wanted to borrow some money from the Count ended up by lending him $1,500. In the best Continental manner, the Count surrounded himself with pretty women...
...Count had a pat explanation for his stockpile of dollars. He said he had been a bootlegger in the U.S. during Prohibition, and was known as "Kid Tiger" (or was it "The Frog...
...stashed away in many safe deposit boxes all over the U.S. It was too bad that he could not get into the U.S. to get the cash right away. A number of Montrealers lent money to the Count to tide him over. Then last July, the Count suddenly vanished...
Last week all Montreal found out where the Count had gone: to South America. But Venezuela would not keep him. Neither would the Dutch West Indies. He finally turned up by plane at Miami, Fla., and U.S. G-men promptly arrested him. Said the FBI: a Washington lawyer named M. 0. Dunning had advanced $125,000 to help the Count get into the U.S. (Dunning had borrowed on collateral supplied by Sigmund Janas, president of Colonial Airlines, which flies to Montreal.) In return Dunning was to get 10% of the supposed cash. But, said the FBI: Count Navarro was really...
Besides perfectly conditioned beef and brawn, Leahy can count on some help from the far sidelines-from nuns in convents, whose Saturday radio-side prayers go something like this: "God's will be done . . . but if it doesn't make any difference, let Notre Dame win." Says Frank Leahy, a realist, "The prayers work better when the players...