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...Song Suckers. When the sucker has swallowed the bait by submitting his song, he gets an enthusiastic letter stating that his lyrics are indeed hit material, that with a good tune and publication they can scarcely fail to score. Expenses incidental to publication-tunewriting, arranging, etc.-will, of course, cost a small amount, which must be sent in advance. The sucker sends the money, and is gratified to receive 20 printed copies of his song. He next hears from an apparently different concern (the same shark using a different address), expressing great interest in his published song and suggesting that...
Questioning hundreds of victims, Fritchey came across the name of a sucker named "Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
...never do the right thing. He salutes back sergeants and smiles benignly at majors and colonels. Hargrove! Clean those garbage cans! Hargrove, played by Robert Walker, falls into the company of an ace goldbrick, Keenan Wynn, whose shrewdness is exceeded only by his ability to make a sucker of Hargrove. As a result of the goldbrick's efforts, the hard luck private accidently acquires a sweetheart, is transferred to a soft job, and then rejoins his old company when he learns that they are pulling out for overseas...
They did not wreck Naples. They did not wreck Rome. The fear that extremist Nazis intend to ravage the rest of Europe has been carefully cultivated by German terror propaganda. But the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche, in the past no sucker for German propaganda, reported that such plans did exist. The paper's informants said that the catacombs and sewers of Paris were "stuffed with dynamite," that Warsaw, Prague, other cities were to be laid waste if the plans were carried out, that Berlin's frantic exploitation of Allied bomb damage was to be used to justify unlimited...
Broadway's No. 1 angel is urbane, likable, 52-year-old Howard Stix Cullman. By all the rules of the game, he also should be Broadway's No. 1 sucker. Far from it, he is just about the smartest picker in show business. Since last spring he has picked seven hits in a row; he owns from 7% to 20% of The Voice of the Turtle, Kiss and Tell, Othello, Lovers and Friends, A Connecticut Yankee, The Cherry Orchard and One Touch of Venus. He also owns 20% of Life With Father and 25% of Arsenic...