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FOUR FRIGHTENED WOMEN - George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). News Photographer Kent Murdock gets seriously involved with the murder of a comic actor's exwife. Two more murders and a kidnapping before the payoff...
...safety campaign has thus far achieved a 21% saving in sudden death. Safest State has been Pennsylvania, with a 40% reduction; least improved, Maine, by one percent. Right in step with the national trend is New York, 20% safer. Last week for New York motorists there came a payoff. Available for safe drivers were reductions of as much as 15% in basic automobile liability insurance rates. Lowest rate was for Class A motorists, those who in the first 21 months of the last two years had no accidents, or one involving only property damage. In Manhattan, where the annual premium...
There they discovered that they were the only holders of the winning combination, were handed a check for $6,754.50 for their $2 investment. Reporters quickly realized that only one parimutuel payoff in U. S. turf history had been larger: $7,205 won by a Jersey City truck driver at Miami's Tropical Park three years...
...from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets are only a few cents) that the same figures will appear in some daily public statistic (e.g., daily bank clearances). Because the odds against the better are 1,000-to-1 and the payoff, minus commissions, is only 540-to-1, numbers is highly profitable to its bankers and collectors. When Dutch Schultz turned his energies from beer-running to numbers, he organized it along military lines with bet collectors at the bottom, controllers who tabulated their slips, bankers who hired the controllers...
...good horse-racing story. Keeping the conventions intact, Bright Mark came in first. What the man who rejected the five tickets did is not a matter of record. Lonnie Gray stoically continued selling tickets. When his work was done, he leaped out of his cage, went over to the payoff windows, collected...