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This time Curley wriggled under the hottest spotlight he has yet faced- indictment by a Federal grand jury. The charge: Curley and five other men (including Donald Wakefield Smith, a former member of NLRB) used the mails to mulct suckers through a war-contracts racket called Engineers Group, Inc. The company claimed an ability to wangle equally fat contracts for new clients. Fees as high as $9,000 were accepted. Actually, the Government charges: Engineers Group has no advisory board, no contracts, no legal ability to get contracts...
After Williams, Harry Fisher turned pro, went around the world as a $50-a-week boxing instructor on the S. S. Franconia. Later he drifted into banking, peddled stocks in Manhattan and took up golf seriously, shot a 66. He started playing squash rackets in earnest and cleaned up tournaments around New York. Three years ago, when a match with hard-hitting John Doeg left him feeling wobbly, he threw away his racket and has never played since...
...Tennis and badminton racket strings, fishing lines...
...Credit managers refused to accept C.A.C. checks (they thought they could squeeze more money out of debtors themselves). Sharp-dealing installment houses cold-shouldered C.A.C., preferred to keep customers in debt buying shoddy goods at high prices. Loan sharks fought them as competitors. Detroit companies, suspicious of a racket, refused to mail them employes' checks...
This, of course, brings up the question of how I'm able to dash off a column for the A-L boys. Frankly, it's a knack multiple endeavor is relatively easy for an old newspaperman (I quit the racket in 1939, when the bottom fell out of the price of old newspapers). The facility remains: I can fall out on the double for reveille in my bare feet, putting on my GI shoes as I run down the stairs. I lace 'em up, too--living as I do on the fourth floor, I have plenty of time...