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William Alfred, professor of English at Harvard, will read from his revision of Hogan's Goat Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Lamont Forum Room. He will be introduced by his colleague, Robert O'Clair...
...insisted that no one had ever tried to bribe him. An assistant supervisor was accused of charging a 5% "commission" to contractors to speed up profitable contract revisions. Two high Board of Education officials testified that they were asked to solicit political campaign contributions for District Attorney Frank Hogan (unknown to Hogan) from architects doing business with the board. The chairman of the board's Committee on Buildings and Sites was revealed as the leading stockholder in an outfit owning land on which a new school was to be built...
...Gary Player, the Masters champion, was mystified by the rolling greens, putted so badly he wound up 7-over-par with 287 for 72 holes. Defending Open Champion Arnold Palmer fared even worse, failed to duplicate last year's whirlwind finish, shot 289. Two hardy perennials wilted: Ben Hogan, 48, seeking a record fifth Open, fired 289; Sam Snead, seeking his first in 21 tries...
...knew what I was doing was wrong," said the star basketball player. But he did it anyway. In return for shaving points in four recent games, charged New York City's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan last week, New York University's Ray Paprocky, 23, took $1,300 from gamblers. He was not alone, said Hogan. Accused of accepting similar bribes were four former players at New York's St. John's University and New Jersey's Seton Hall University. They were only the latest bad sports in a nationwide basketball scandal, first revealed...
...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...