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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close Friends. George had another startling story to tell. One Leon Bishop, a gambler, had told George that he was sent by Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren to Hialeah to take over crap games, roulette wheels and all gambling except horse racing. George said that Bishop walked in last December when Policeman George was helping to raid a gambling joint in Hialeah. Bishop went to the telephone. Five minutes later, George related, he was called to the telephone himself and told by another gambler to "get the hell out of there" because Leon Bishop was a close friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: Florida Songbird | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...publicity stunt, Florida's Governor Fuller Warren carefully wrapped a native product, worth $35 in fancy Manhattan restaurants, and sent it off to New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams. The gift: an ostrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mixture as Before | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Grandmother Is Sick." The fact that Henry Ford died in 1947, and that two of the original sponsors of the enterprise were sent to prison last year for mail fraud in connection with the swindle, only speeded up collections. Mrs. Marie Fuller, grandmotherly operator of a Canton beauty parlor, had been, a sort of silent partner in the conspiracy. She began operating more openly, and at the same time the investors began getting letters, telegrams and telephone calls from someone who announced himself as "Benson Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Great Ford Swindle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...weeks ago, ten years after the golden opportunity had first been offered, did one victim finally think of going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days later, the cops caught Marie Fuller impersonating the baritone "Benson" over the telephone. They raided her apartment, found stacks of spurious Ford Motor Co. stationery and the records of the conspiracy: $1,300 from one 66-year-old pensioner, $81,000 from the plumber, $110,000 from two farmers-more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Great Ford Swindle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Appearing on TV no oftener than once a month, each comic gets more time for preparation of material, two weeks of rehearsal instead of one, and fewer pressure headaches. "It makes particular sense," says Executive Producer Sam Fuller, "because some of these gentlemen are not as young as they used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rotating Comics | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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