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Other key defendant was John Ceccarelli, 33, former dog warden of North Branford, charged with fraud by a public officer. The state's case: Ceccarelli bought dogs from other wardens (again at $2-$3), sold them to Yale for $7. Accused as primary suppliers in this neat racket were the dog wardens in surrounding towns. Warrants were out against eight of them, with more expected. Wardens get a uniform $4 fee for each stray dog they destroy. Instead of killing the animals, say the police, the wardens sold them to Iannucci or Ceccarelli, reported them destroyed, and collected their...
...flourishing business. Over the past three years, for example, the agency employing Benson had accepted commissions to write theses for at least eight graduate scholars, for fees ranging from $350 to $3,000, on subjects ranging from the Elizabethan theater to the educational ideas of Robert M. Hutchins. The racket was national in scope: Benson found that New York agencies advertising in national periodicals attracted indolent scholars from as far off as Texas, Indiana and Alaska...
Cinch for the Sit-in. Although New York educators had long suspected the existence of the ghost-scholar racket, they were still understandably upset by Benson's evidence. Said Dr. Hollis L. Caswell, president of Teachers College: "The general moral tone in our country is tending to encourage this sort of thing. It is a little like our attitude toward the income tax-if you can get by with it, it is all right." Columbia might have been equally concerned at the facility with which Newsman Benson, himself an admittedly indifferent undergraduate student (Class of '49, with...
Donald Paarlberg: "The U.S. could compete in the index numbers racket with the Soviets by abolishing the 40-hour week, by drafting women and old men into the labor force, by getting rid of tailfins and hi-fi too, and by closing the churches. They've done it. But we don't have to, so why should...
...Music, by Leonard Bernstein. The conductor-composer writes about music for the layman without sounding like a practitioner of what he calls the "Music Appreciation Racket...