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Residents of the outside world are inclined to look upon the citizens of New York's Westchester County as the mink, martini & money set, with hardly a petty thief in a trainload. Last week George A. Williams, the New York Central Railroad's station agent at Chappaqua in northern Westchester, shattered that illusion. Agent Williams had made a painful discovery: he was losing as much as $12 a week from the "honor system" cash box on his newspaper stand. Williams bored a hole in the ceiling above the newsstand, poked the lens of a camera through, and took...
...Boss Harold Baynton himself might come in for a little investigating. There was, for example, the fact that his wife was seen sporting a mink coat at the very time that mink became suddenly unfashionable on Democratic women's shoulders. Baynton said that the coat was merely borrowed for two months from the wife of his old friend Harold Horowitz, whom Baynton made $26,000-a-year president of E. Leitz, Inc. (Leica cameras), another OAP enterprise...
None of 1951's scandals indicated thoroughgoing moral depravity, or even idiocy -just an inability to tell right from wrong if the question was put (as it usually was) in fine print. This uneducated moral sense led congressional committees through a sordid trail of mink coats and other gifts to Government officials. Casuistry reached a high point with the official whose conscience told him that it was proper to accept a ham under twelve pounds, but not a bigger one. Democratic Chairman William Boyle resigned his job under a cumulus cloud of influence peddling, and his successor was hardly...
...Hines cracked down on certain night spots for lewdness, condemning female impersonators and ordering burlesque performers to exercise more discretion; five hundred criminals were rounded up in a nation-wide drive on narcotics peddlers; battered reputations came flying periodically out of the doors of various government agencies, swathed in mink coats and attitudes of aggrieved righteousness; President Truman and the Republicans fought to see who could be most for clean-up in government during the election year, the former having an advantage because he was in a position to do something...
...star of the show was a moron (Don Hanmer) who didn't know his own age. The heroine (Olive Deering) was a mink-laden doxy with a pronounced streak of masochism. Joshua Shelley played an embittered musician who got a joyless amusement from baiting the moron. With this gallery of Jukes and Kallikaks, Danger (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) last week put on one of the most controversial of the year's TV dramas...