Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 who managed the flow of puzzle information were accused of using the mails and long-distance telephone to defraud, but were not arrested; the crimes are not extraditable...
...greedy. They expanded, hired outside amateurs-a chiropractor's wife and a TV repairman in Portland, a pretty secretary in Detroit, a dress-plant manager near Harrisburg-who would settle for peanuts: $150 to $300 cuts of $3,000 and $4,000 wins. The ringers were the ring's undoing. When in February the suddenly suspicious Portland papers called in the FBI, investigators concentrated on the weak links. After their shamed confessions, the FBI pieced together the whole story...
...precise location and physical description, Camp David last week was briefly opened to newsmen for a rare look. Its 184 acres on the east slope of Catoctin Mountain are surrounded by a 12-ft. barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue golf bag, while not far away...
Careful students of the game were quick to point out that it is essential for the phone to be in the booth, for it is absolutely necessary that one of the crowd be able to answer the phone if it should ring. There are no extra credits awarded for placing a call midst the squash, and if the boys can get a few coeds to join in, there should be no necessity to call...
...violin with the Chicago Opera Co. when he was in his early 20s, tried his hand at concert management. But at the opera one evening, Jim ("The Golden Greek'') Londos, onetime heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, persuaded him that the real money was in the wrestling ring. Publicity-wise Ray Fabiani set up scholarships for young wrestlers (the recipients were sent to a muscle-building gymnasium), lured ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis into a brief and unrewarding wrestling career, spiced his programs with talks by celebrities, including Philadelphia's Father Divine...