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...Manhattan's special sessions court this week Gambler Erickson meekly entered a plea of guilty on all counts (maximum penalty on each: $500 fine and one year in jail). But a trial might have been worse. Hogan's men had found that a big chunk of his $100,000-a-year income came from Florida's Colonial Inn, a gambling enterprise he shared with Detroit gamblers, New York Gangsters Meyer Lansky and "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo, Brooklyn's Joe Adonis. Erickson would not want to get those fellows into trouble...
...Third Plea. But somehow, despite Sullivan's confession, the New Jersey Court of Pardons twice turned down Cliff Shephard, presumably because his old accusers refused to change their stories. "I talked to three of the merchants," Shephard said. "They thought I was innocent. But they were afraid I'd sue for false arrest...
...founders of the World Organization for Brotherhood also heard a moving plea from Belgium's Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak: "If our aims on earth are truly the same, to organize human happiness in ever-widening social justice, we must find the means to put ourselves in agreement on the means and to end our murderous divisions. It must be possible to get around this historical struggle which threatens to end only in sterile clericalism and anti-clericalism...
...Socialized medicine. 2. Further socialization of Britain's industry. 3. A plea for more colleges. 4. A plea for a world federation. 5. The idea of another talk with Soviet Russia...
...fact. The judge asked for a probation report on Jaffe. Hitchcock blandly told the judge, in effect, he thought such a report was more trouble than it was worth. Then the court fined Jaffe $2,500, which he paid on the spot. Later Larsen was fined $500 on his plea of no defense. Jaffe also paid Larsen's fine. Justice decided that it did not have enough evidence against Lieut. Roth and the charges against him were dropped...