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Presumably, Chicago gamblers would have no reason to be curious about local news items in Waukegan. But last winter Publisher Moe Annenberg's Nationwide News Service was forced to cut off its racing information to bookmakers and betters (TIME, Nov. 13). A Waukegan newspaper with press wire service could act as an outpost to give Chicago bookies (by telephone) this vital information...
...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...
...Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard arguments. This week thousands...
...Annenberg. Having pried into the manifold affairs of Philadelphia Publisher Moses L. Annenberg (TIME, May 1, et seq.), a U. S. grand jury in Chicago last week took a new way to charge him and associates with an old crime. By coding, printing and transmitting horse-race entries, odds, results to bookies, said the jurors, an Annenberg printing house and his Nationwide News Service conducted a lottery by interstate wire and the U. S. mails...
Indicted seven times, billed for $5,548,384 in allegedly unpaid income taxes, penalties and interest, liable upon conviction to more than 100 years in prison, 61-year-old Publisher Annenberg affably quipped in Philadelphia: "From the efforts and demands of the Government agents, it appears that I may well paraphrase the words of Nathan Hale-my only regret is that I haven't enough remaining years to give my country." Immensely rich, newly humble Moses Annenberg was meat for Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, who in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch limned a pigmy Annenberg fleeing a gigantic and pursuing...