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Hogan charges that New York City Gambler Joseph Hacken. 41, was the fixer. His partner was David Budin, 28, onetime basketball captain at Brooklyn College and a junior high school physical-education teacher until last fall, when he was arrested and charged with trying to fix a Michigan-Oregon football game. To buy the accused basketball players, many of them products of New York high schools, says Hogan. Gambler Hacken and Teacher Budin supplied spending money, dates and ultimately bribes of $500-$1,000 a game. They even had a farm system to buy freshmen players before they reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Price Was Right | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...round, nailed like a frantic amateur until he finally knocked out his man in the sixth to win their rubber match and retain the title at Miami Beach. ¶ New York police began uncovering another major college basketball scandal by arresting two smalltime operators named Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken for paying $1,500 to a player for the University of Connecticut and $1,000 each to two players for Seton Hall to shave points this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Curley-who had arranged the match because wrestling gate receipts have lately declined-to disregard the ruling which says that in New York wrestling bouts are "exhibitions" not "contests." The crowd (35,000) was the biggest at a wrestling match since the one which saw Frank Gotch defeat George Hacken-schmidt in 1911 in a bout which appeared so fraudulent that no professional wrestling has been conducted in daylight since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Londos v. Browning | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Author. John Galsworthy, 63, read law at New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar, but disliked it; took to traveling and writing instead. So great is the fame of his Forsyte Saga that last spring a telephone exchange in Hacken sack, N. J. was named Galsworthy. He has a prejudice against cinematization, but his famed Old English (with Actor George Arliss) at last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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