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Back in the '20s, soon after Charles ("Get-Rich-Quick") Ponzi went broke Offering Bostonians "double your money" in six months, Moran & Mack, the "Two Black Crows" of vaudeville and radio, told a story about raising pigs on their farm. The pigs cost $4 apiece and were fattened for the market, but brought only $4 when sold...
...other Post exploit equaled its exposure of Charles Ponzi, the foreign-exchange juggler of 1920 whose glib tongue talked Bostonians out of millions. City Editor Eddie Dunn, who got his facts from Ponzi's disgruntled pressagent, scooped the city with the news that Ponzi was actually a Canadian ex-convict. His story pricked the bubble and started Ponzi to jail...
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). The Ponzi Story, with Quentin Reynolds, Hume Cronyn, Coleen Gray and Blanche Yurka...
Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets...
...Italy, Ponzi got on the good side of Mussolini's Fascists, was sent to Rio de Janeiro as business manager for Italy's LATI airlines. The war ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...