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...with a whopping bill. For dodging payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes, Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's high-priced restaurant chain, Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $115,000. His partners-in-crime, Nephew E. Allen Lustig and Bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, were given three-and two-year terms, respectively. Hardly had Uncle Sam presented one bill to Henry Lustig than he reached in his pocket for another. Lustig and his corporations still owe the U.S. Treasury an additional $7,726,124 in taxes...
With the help of a nephew and employe, E. Allen Lustig, and his chief bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, Longchamps' had kept two sets of books, one for Henry, one for Uncle Sam. Profits on which taxes were paid were determined by avarice, not earnings. Fictitious expenses were put down; the bulk of the tips to hat-check girls ($5,000 a month) was pocketed by Lustig and not reported. Lustig's house hold expenses (and race horses) were charged up to corporation expenses; $18,142 went to a decorator, $913 for Mrs. Lustig's modes...
Says Bridge Champion Rapee: "Check is a welcome relief . . . from racking your brain over a mathematical bridge hand. . . ... Your interest is always kept up by the fast play . . . and you're never a dummy." Mrs. Helen Sobel, chic, cool No. 1 woman bridge expert, tried her hand at the game, gave an unexpected reason for its probable popularity: "A husband won't be able to tell his wife he's going out to play pinochle with the boys. . . . From now on, every wife can be part of the game...
...professional dancer, Helen Martin, twelve years ago, when she met Alexander M. Sobel, who taught her the intricacies of duplicate. Result: within two years she won her first championship match (U.S. women's pairs); within five years she married Sobel. He soon acknowledged himself worsted, gave up tournament play and turned his attention to revising bridge laws and to his job as executive tournament manager of the American Contract Bridge League. Once a year, handsome, jovial Al Sobel plays with Mrs. Sobel in the New York City married-jouples match, for the Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Sobel trophy...
...Helen Sobel makes no money out of tournament bridge. A.C.B.L. matches prohibit betting and cash awards. Many an expert earns his keep by playing rubber bridge. Mrs. Sobel usually plays at Manhattan's Cavendish Club. She hates to teach bridge, and seldom does. She also hates to write about bridge, lets...