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...Angeles courtroom as the state's star witness against two men charged with using Marilyn's name on letters hawking nude photographs of her "in every pose imaginable." Posing prettily, the onetime undraped calendar model said "no" a dozen times, thus denied any knowledge of the pornographic racket. As she explained demurely, "the pictures are of somebody else...
...Haven't Any Lesson . . ." Amy does not remember just when they began to borrow money from her parents, but soon they were hopelessly in debt, and hopelessly enmeshed in the narcotics racket. Then they were arrested. Amy went...
...year before Ruppel came in. But recently Ruppel ran into trouble from a different source. Last February, with a splash of full-page newspaper ads, Collier's touted a big exclusive: the inside story of "Mr. Big," described as the boss of "New York's sprawling, brawling, racket-ridden waterfront." In two articles, Collier's Star Crime Reporter Lester Velie identified "Mr. Big" as William J. McCormack, trucking, concrete and stevedoring contractor...
...local reporting, San Francisco Chronicle's George de Carvalho, who was born in Hong Kong and knows San Francisco's Chinatown intimately. He was the first to expose the Chinese Communist extortion racket (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). After Carvalho reported that Chinese-Americans were being bilked for ransom to get their relatives out of jail in Red China, federal investigators went after the racket...
...vote on this particular award. † He picked the name of "Ranger" for U.S. Commandos. * One result: last week in New York, the editor and ex-managing editor of the Chinese-language Communist China Daily News were' indicted on 53 criminal charges in helping "an international racket entailing murder,, extortion, torture and, in general, commerce in human misery...