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Moving swiftly one morning last week after a month of patient investigation, FBI agents in six states solved the puzzle of fraud in newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). In 86 minutes and twelve arrests they cracked the international racket that, by securing advance answers to the contests, swindled U.S. newspapers for more than a year. The transcontinental swoop bagged two key figures in Detroit: Walter Rex Johnston, 30, part-time car salesman whom the FBI identified as chief architect and brains of the swindle ring, and a key Johnston lieutenant, Harry H. Balk, 33, theatrical booking agent. Two Canadians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Solving the Puzzle | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...months the racket worked like silk, as long as it relied on known and trusted contact men such as Lawrence A. Dyson, 32, South Philadelphia, brother of Joseph Dyson. Lawrence Dyson won $6,050 from the Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Bulletin case, the fixers overcame a last-minute effort to thwart their game: they learned that one letter in the solution had been changed, submitted 24 entries to cover all possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Solving the Puzzle | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

This element of risk was too much for one Radcliffe student, who pointed to a story in yesterday's This Week magazine concerning a male escort service which served as the. "front" for a blackmail racket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escort Agency Courts 'Cliffe Students | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Newfoundland, where Premier Joey Smallwood is renowned as one of labor's best friends, one of labor's worst friends got a toe hold almost surreptitiously. Jimmy Hoffa and his racket-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Joey v. Jimmy | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Both girls are tall (about 5 ft. 10 in., 145 Ibs.), trim brunettes. Lefthander Betty has the stronger game, Peggy the greater finesse. "She's like a bulldog," says Peggy of Betty's play. "She drives in under an opponent's racket or swings without regard for anything but hitting the ball. I'm daintier. I play a softer game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Howes & Squash | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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