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Died. Frederick Emerson Peters, 73, suave, oft-jailed swindler who passed about 28,000 bad checks, netted $250,000 in a career of 200 impersonations, including a college professor, retired actor, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so thoroughly that the FBI often had trouble convincing them that they had been duped, was often altruistic (last winter he sent the National Cathedral in Washington a $200 chalice, paid for. to be sure, by a bad check); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
Last week Milan cops arrested Vignal, unmasked him as one Giuseppe Tosini, well known to Roman law authorities as a swindler, cigarette smuggler, drunk and vagrant wanted on four counts. La Bibbia's fate-Tosini had two years worth of Scripture scripts-was left in doubt. To get the public and the Bible closer together, said Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, Milan's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censor, it will be necessary to bring the public level up rather than drag the Bible down...
After 20 years and many thousands of kronen, the heroine is flabbergasted to discover that her nephew never became a priest at all. He makes his living as a smalltime photographer and petty swindler, and he curses the old cook for ruining his life by sending him to a seminary. Shattered, the old woman makes a pilgrimage to Rome to do penance for what Werfel conceived as the sin of the century: the attempt to substitute power for love, money for meaning...
Control of another Guterma company, Western Financial Corp., was sold by Guterma to Benjack Cage, the Texas swindler (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957). From $2.50 a share, the sales price in a few months dropped...
...native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler, he could stand up to such Erie accomplices as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould. Indeed, in his watered-stocking feet, he stood only inches below the stature of Commodore Vanderbilt himself...