Word: racetrackers
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...Boston bureau manager, Gardner L. Frost, a U.P. employee for 17 years, who got $500 last year from the track. The Boston Post, whose track reporter was on the list, said that he was not an employee of the paper but a "private contractor who sells a racetrack service to the Post." Hearst's American and Record replied that they saw nothing wrong with their staffers earning extra money so long as "they do their own jobs." But A.P. General Manager Frank Starzel took a much stricter view. Said he: "We deem it wholly untenable for any staff member...
There are no little men at a racetrack. You pays your money and you takes your choice and Eddie Arcaro and Hill Gail are working for you. It's a challenge to the sporting enthusiast, the mathematician, the donester...
...Virginia state trooper accused Bandleader Cab Calloway, oldtime King of Hi-De-Ho, of driving 65 m.p.h. and then offering a $10 bribe to be permitted to swing along merrily to a nearby racetrack...
...Last year reporters for the Indianapolis Star turned over rocks in the State Welfare Department's yard and found some fascinating bugs underneath. On the relief rolls were residents of $160-a-month apartments, drivers of new cars, racetrack habitues, Florida vacationers. Members of the Indiana legislature took one look, then pushed through a bill to open assistance records to public view. They believed that the risk of publicity would scare the chiselers off relief...
...Nobody was more embarrassed than ex-Newspaperman Mulroy, who protested that he only bought the stock as a "flyer," long after the 1949 bill was passed. "I wish the damned thing hadn't turned out to be so successful," he lamented. Snapped his old employer, the Sun-Times: "Racetrack operators don't cut people into their profits without a reason . . . if Mulroy doesn't understand this he's not smart enough to be an assistant to the governor...