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Roach made 98 films of Racket Squad sold them to a sponsor, but just barely made expenses ("I was banking on the fact that I could show the films again and cash in"). He won his gamble by reselling the films to the ABC network for $1,000,000. He has 30 writers hard at work on three on-the-air series (Public Defender, Duffy's Tavern, My Little Margie) and seven new programs...
...embarrassing position of seeing some of his closest political friends caught in a Dewey-ordered investigation. Last week another chapter in New York's harness-racing scandal disclosed that some of the most highly placed Republicans in the state had made fantastic profits from the racket-ridden $272 million-a-year New York trotting tracks...
Inky-Dinks & Sink. On motion picture lots, as he had at station KGO, Webb carried on his restless and insatiable quest for knowledge. If a sound man hastily "rolled a loop" of track as an airplane passed over (so that the intruding racket could later be dubbed into parts of the scene shot after it had disappeared),Webb asked why. He watched stage carpenters make golden oak out of cheap pine sets with yellow paint and combs. He patiently learned about studio lights (brutes, seniors, juniors and inky-dinks, in order of their size), and the tricks of lighting eyes...
...Record. The investigators found that Oilman George Vasen had been convicted of a confidence racket in Iowa 20 years before and served a five-year prison term, had been convicted of a similar offense in Illinois in 1941 (which the state Supreme Court reversed), and later got in trouble in Mississippi over his tung-nut dealings. The SEC tracked down 600 small investors who had poured between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 into Vasen's bottomless well...
...Apologize, Billy!" While Evangelist Graham was still on the high seas, the British press warmed up the oven to give him a good roasting. The whole crusade seemed to editors to be U.S. anti-Socialist propaganda or a moneymaking racket, or both. Sneered the Daily Mirror: "America occasionally tells her friends what to do. Tomorrow an American arrives in Britain to tell us what to think and what to believe. God's Own Country has always run a brisk export line in evangelists. They come in all shapes and sizes . . . We've had kids like seven-year...