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Rowing yesterday on Lake Beseck near Connecticut College, the Radcliffe crew proved that last year's Women's EARC championship was no frake. Dominating the race from the stake boats to the finish line, it won the heavyweight Sprints title for the second consecutive year...
Story hasn't changed much. Come time, the Frakes all kerplump in the old man's crate and poot up to Dallas for the Texas State Fair, "the biggest state fair in the hull U.S.A." Mom Frake (Faye) wins the plaque for mincemeat. Pop Frake (Ewell) wins the grand prize for swine. Marge Frake (Tiffin) wins one of those TV fellers (Darin), and Wayne Frake (Boone) wins one of those fast girls (Ann-Margret) from back East, but she's too fast for Wayne and the tomfool lets her get away...
...wires to its 30,000 offices and agencies in the U.S., Western Union last week tapped out an order: don't take any messages or money orders involving bets. The order came after a Cumberland, NJ. county court convicted Western Union and its branch manager, Charles H. Frake, 40, of "maintaining a disorderly house" (i.e., a place where illegal business is conducted). The state charged that W.U. broke a New Jersey law banning off-track horse-race betting by handling $300,000 in betting messages and money orders wired to out-of-state bookies. W.U. maintained that since...
Into Western Union's local office at Bridgeton, NJ. seven weeks ago walked Nelson Stamler, New Jersey's deputy attorney general. He had not come to send a telegram, but to arrest Office Manager Charles Frake, 39. The charge: operating a horse-betting establishment. Records seized by Stamler showed that in one year Frake's office had handled the transmission of $300,000 worth of horse bets by telegraphed money orders to out-of-state bookmakers...
Last week, a Cumberland County grand jury indicted Frake and the Western Union Telegraph Co. on bookmaking charges. It also indicted four St. Louisans on charges of operating a nationwide horse-bet syndicate. Same day, Missouri highway patrolmen swarmed into the syndicate's innocent-looking office in a St. Louis suburb. Called the "Gold Bronzing Co.," it purported to be busy gilding keepsake baby shoes. The cops found no baby shoes, but a gold mine of records, ledgers and racing form sheets...