Word: scalper
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...enough that a scalper, a common crook charges eight dollars for end-zone seats, but the HAA charges $4.80, the same price that they charge a man for a seat high on the fifty...
Whenever Manhattan's key-hole columnists tire of puffing their friends or scalping their public enemies, they refresh their spirits by jealously skinning one another. Last week the knives came out with a vengeance. And, fittingly enough, Walter Winchell, who is the busiest scalper, this time got the closest skinning...
...Wells tour to four weeks in Manhattan and five on the road, and had set Manhattan ticket prices, except for opening night, at a fainthearted $4.20 top. As it turned out, tickets became almost as hard to come by as an aisle seat for South Pacific ($6 plus scalper...
...H.A.A. deprives a student of special privileges and class priority if a ticket sold him turns up in the hands of a broker or scalper, whether or not the student himself negotiated the actual transfer...
...Naval Academy discharged Midshipman Frederick W. Lauer Jr., a senior, who had bought up 400 extra tickets to the Navy-Penn game from lower classmen at $3.60 apiece for sale to a scalper. Possible profit: at $20 a ticket...