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...title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running a famous bar on Manhattan's 14th Street, he drifted to the West Coast, died a pauper...
Outwardly, little Madeleine's life was a succession of sleazy flats in the slummier parts of Paris, poor food, illness, and an environment in which bawds and criminal riffraff were taken for granted. Her father died a pauper, and for several days, while her mother tried to raise money for a funeral, the body lay in their tiny, one-room-and-kitchen flat. Madeleine's mother wor ried about the effect on the child, but a worldly neighbor snapped: "Let her be! . . . Hide nothing from your little Madeleine, and if later her luck changes, she'll know...
...side. Toledo's Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb looked at the record of George's case and refused to sentence him. When poor old George began to weep, the judge cried angrily that the bank had "invited" him to steal by keeping him "a virtual pauper for at least 22 years of his life . . . "The bank ought to be indicted here," the judge said. "I have no power over these men who were members of the board of directors of this bank, but if I had I would sentence them to read [Dickens' Christmas Carol] every Christmas...
...general and big-shot purchasing agent for the Air Force, was released from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. After serving 318 days of a one-year sentence for $61,400 income tax evasion, plus 30 days more for failure to pay the $15,000 fine, he signed a pauper's oath and promised to give to the Government, toward payment of the fine, a percentage of any future money he may earn...
...governor also had a few harsh words about doctors' high fees: "I wonder how many Edisons, Einsteins, Lincolns and Pasteurs lie buried in unmarked graves because they were too poor to call a doctor. Doctors, this is your burden and your responsibility . . . The pauper who needs you today was yesterday one of the taxpayers who helped build and maintain our great [University of Oklahoma] School of Medicine, where the doctors of today and tomorrow receive their education. You will be a long time paying this debt...