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Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...
...some 15 years Tod Sloan has been broke. His third wife and daughter Anna, 10, have long been cared for by Mrs. J. P. Cudahy of the packing family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...
...York. There in 1921 Moe got into partnership with a pair of gentlemen named Joe Bannon and Hugh Murray. Aware of the huge public that follows horse-racing and of the money that flows freely through that public in betting, they bought the Daily Racing Form, a tipster sheet published in New York, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco. As Racing Form flourished, they gathered together a whole stableful of racing sheets including Daily Running Horse, The Racing Record, Sporting Times, which they ran through two companies, the Walter Holding Co. and A.B. & M. Corp. Later they brought out Radio...
From the shoddy throngs that follow the horses, a steady stream of dollars flowed in the direction of Mr. Annenberg's tipster enterprises. He branched into banking, brokerage, real estate. Only he knows the full range of his interests, and Moe Annenberg does not talk about himself. He does not even like to have it said that he has made millions, but today, father of eight children (seven of them daughters, all married), he owns a ranch in Wyoming, "the show place of the Black Hills," from which like Hearst at San Simeon he rules a far-flung empire...
Various other Washington letters have come and gone. Some were frankly "tipster services," flashing advice to clients to invest this way or that on the basis of legislative acts or guesses. Others are simply news letters on a smaller scale than the big three. McClure Newspaper Syndicate issues a confidential collection of slangy jottings called "The National Whirligig-News Behind the News" by Reporter Paul Mallon. W. F. Ardis, one-time associate of Whaley-Eaton, is in business for himself. One which has disappeared was called Federal Trade Information Service. Countless are bulletins published by various trade lobbies, to post...