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...Into Harrisburg, Pa. one evening last week fluttered a particular swallow known among political ornithologists as Lyndon Baines Johnson. Ostensibly, the Senate majority leader had flown to Pennsylvania's capital for a victory dinner saluting the new Democratic Governor, David Leo Lawrence. But the northward migration served a serious second purpose. Lyndon Johnson has been banded as a possible compromise 1960 presidential nominee. Even as he protests, he recognizes the danger of too much Southern identification; smoothly, in recent months, Texan Lyndon has changed to Western plumage.* Now, with a speech in Pennsylvania and two more at week...
Thus equipped, the ringleaders phoned appointed contacts in U.S. cities-Chicago, Detroit, Portland (Ore.), Philadelphia, Harrisburg (Pa.), Minneapolis-fed them the winning answers. Many of the participants were on the fringes of the entertainment business; Dingman was the only one with a newspaper connection. Often, time zones worked for the swindle; e.g., the phony London bank got its answers at least two hours before U.S. newspapers on the West Coast...
Eventually, the Canadians got too greedy. They expanded, hired outside amateurs-a chiropractor's wife and a TV repairman in Portland, a pretty secretary in Detroit, a dress-plant manager near Harrisburg-who would settle for peanuts: $150 to $300 cuts of $3,000 and $4,000 wins. The ringers were the ring's undoing. When in February the suddenly suspicious Portland papers called in the FBI, investigators concentrated on the weak links. After their shamed confessions, the FBI pieced together the whole story...
...neighbors, of course, are horrified, but they console themselves that Horace Pennypacker's bark is worse than his family tree. In private life he is a devoted husband and father, an insufferable swaggerer about his "contribution to the growth of Harrisburg, Pa.": eight sturdy young Pennypackers...
...made an even greater contribution to the growth of Philadelphia: nine sturdy young Pennypackers. Illegitimate? "Mr. Pennypacker," an innocent clergyman confidently declares, "is a family man." Bigamy? "Morality," Mr. Pennypacker proposes, "is merely a matter of geography." What is right in Salt Lake City cannot be wrong in Harrisburg -or even in Philadelphia...