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...minutes and twelve arrests they cracked the international racket that, by securing advance answers to the contests, swindled U.S. newspapers for more than a year. The transcontinental swoop bagged two key figures in Detroit: Walter Rex Johnston, 30, part-time car salesman whom the FBI identified as chief architect and brains of the swindle ring, and a key Johnston lieutenant, Harry H. Balk, 33, theatrical booking agent. Two Canadians who managed the flow of puzzle information were accused of using the mails and long-distance telephone to defraud, but were not arrested; the crimes are not extraditable...
...Francisco, a city that cherishes its eccentrics, has never had a greater one than the late Architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck. Until his death a year and a half ago at 95 (TIME, Oct. 14, 1957), scrag-bearded Bernard Maybeck cheerfully held court in the house he built for himself of gunny sacks dipped in pink cement in the Berkeley hills, delighted his visitors by ripping off hunks of the wall to prove that they were light enough to float. Barely 5 ft. tall in his home-knitted tam-o'-shanter, Maybeck was a sartorial seventh wonder. He blueprinted...
Stock-market shares had fallen 4 to 10 points on the news that the architect of Germany's economic miracle, and his party's most effective campaigner after Adenauer, might be lost in a largely honorific five-year job. Of the 271 Christian Democrats in Parliament, more than 120 signed petitions urging Erhard to stay at the Economics Ministry, and 46 of the dissenters warned that they would vote against Erhard at the July 1 secret ballot, ensuring his defeat for President...
Cops & Daubers. In Wayne, N.J., the architect's specification sheet for the new Municipal Building lists all the police rooms, including the "Finger Paint Room...
...Architect Hugh A. Stubbins' "pre-preliminary studies" for the new school have indicated the advisability of closing 211 feet of the street at the Linnean St. end, according to City Manager John J. Gurry...