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...gifts" from friends. Carl F. Routzahn, an Ohio department-store executive, for example, contributed a $20,000 summer home, a $2,500 Chrysler and $400 a month in cash, delivered discreetly in small bills. And his hotel suite was paid for by Henry ("the Dutchman") Grunewald, the professional fixer who has turned up in several previous investigations...
...Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...
...urbane Friedman, called to the witness stand, readily confirmed Shapiro's story. He had sold his services to a number of Boston firms. All his success as a fixer, he claimed, he owed to his friend, Denis Delaney. What had become of the fix money? He and Delaney had split it between them...
...sent five players to prison for terms ranging from six months to three years. He freed nine on probation, and he sent Master Fixer Salvatore Sollazzo to prison for an 8-to-16-year term. But before the shocked and shaken prisoners were led away, Judge Streit angrily underlined one inescapable fact: "The responsibility . . . must be shared not only by the crooked fixers and the corrupt players, but also by the college administrations, coaches and alumni groups...
Judge Saul S. Streit, in sentencing fixer Salvatore Soliazzo to eight to 16 years in jail and former players Ed Gard, Ed Warner, Al Roth, and Harvey Schaff to terms ranging from six months to three years, strongly criticized the nation's colleges yesterday for "commercialism and over-emphasis in arthritics and intercollegiate football in particular...