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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing you; you beast . . .!" screamed redheaded Mrs. Reseda Corrigan as she put the finger on suave, unrumpled Sigmund Engel, 73, in a Chicago police station. Engel, she charged, had charmed her out of $8,700. That, Engel modestly admitted, was nothing. In 50 years of polished wooing, he figured he had extracted "millions-maybe $5 or $6 million" from gullible women. Police couldn't begin to list all the women he had taken to wife, but back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: DOWNFALL OF AN OLD SMOOTHIE | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Cambridge, Mass.; Richard Edwards 1G, of Englewood, N. J.; Robert R. Holt 1G, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Dale DeW. McAdoo 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio; Joe T. McCullough, of Painesville, Ohio; Grover C. Pitts 1G, of Richmond, Va.; James H. Soper 1G, of Hamilton, Ont., Canada; and Arthur R. Spurr, of Reseda, Calif...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Awards Fellowships and Scholarships to Forty-Seven | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

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