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...counts, the ghosts were charged with writing or offering to write papers and theses, some for Ph.D. candidates. The fees: $25 to $3,000. It was no small-bore haunting. According to New York District Attorney Frank Hogan, the ghosts served "hundreds" of other clients, who live beyond his jurisdiction...
...Palmer had putting troubles. Finishing the round with a 72, he groaned, "I've putted like Joe Shmokes two days in a row." At that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack on his heels: Ben Hogan, beginning to weary ("Every time I stand over the ball I feel like the hole is filled with my corpuscles"), Finsterwald, Venturi, Casper and Julius Boros...
...bill for lavish remodeling of his Harlem apartment-at a time when Ungar was actively seeking a city contract for a $30 million slum-clearance project. Jack at first claimed that his wife had paid the bill out of her housekeeping allowance. Later he told District Attorney Frank Hogan that he had lied, confessed that Ungar had "loaned" him the money without collateral. Charged by a grand jury with violations of the city charter and with conspiracy to conceal the violations, Jack prudently suspended himself from office, the highest elective position in the U.S. held by a Negro, until "such...
Visibly angered, District Attorney Hogan immediately asked the Appellate Court to reverse the decision. Jack's lawyer, Carson Baker, hinted darkly that Ho gan was pursuing the case "because Mr. Jack ... is black." The suggestion was too much for even the professionally liberal, race-sensitive New York Post. "We venture to guess," said a bleak Post editorial, "that a white Tammany borough president would almost surely have been the subject of a state removal hearing by now if he had admitted as much as Jack. The unhappy fact is that there is an undercurrent of racism in reverse...
...Hogan had no such confidence in Hulan Jack's word; he took his case against Jack to the grand jury that same day. Next day Jack, shaken, was back in Hogan's office with the admission that he had gotten "panicky" and had lied. Subsequent testimony before the grand jury brought the four-count indictment, listing Ungar (who had testified under a privilege of immunity) as "coconspirator" but not as codefendant...