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...Done. The two Canadians-George G. Dingman Jr., 34, whose father publishes the reputable Times-Journal (circ. 10,720) of St. Thomas, Ont., and a sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Solving the Puzzle | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...months the racket worked like silk, as long as it relied on known and trusted contact men such as Lawrence A. Dyson, 32, South Philadelphia, brother of Joseph Dyson. Lawrence Dyson won $6,050 from the Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Bulletin case, the fixers overcame a last-minute effort to thwart their game: they learned that one letter in the solution had been changed, submitted 24 entries to cover all possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Solving the Puzzle | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Shadow of Doomsday. Just such an incident was the theme of J. B. Priestley's antiwar melodrama called Doomsday for Dyson, which millions of Britons saw over TV. At Birmingham University a student "peace committee" put on a showing of the film, The Shadow of Hiroshima. The press reported daily the progress of a survey being made of university students by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Though the results were hardly conclusive -e.g., only 1,330 out of London University's 24,000 students even bothered to answer the questionnaire-the press gave the distinct impression that those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: The Big Binge | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Harvard threatened in the first inning when Scheer led off with a walk, and Greeley singled him to second. Clasby sacrificed both runners along, and Johnson smashed a line drive to first. Crusader first sacker Fran Dyson reached high to pick off the smash for the second out, and then beat Greeley back to first for the side-retiring double-play...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Nine Whips Holy Cross, 5-2; Greeley, Johnson Top Hitting | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

Sharp fielding again pulled Holy Cross out of possible trouble in the seventh. Krinsky reached first on an error by Dyson. He was out at second on an attempted sacrifice, and a fast short-to-second-to-first double-play on Scheer's grounder ended the inning

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Nine Whips Holy Cross, 5-2; Greeley, Johnson Top Hitting | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

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