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For four days, while the old league bosses chewed their nails, A.A.C. conferred. Their decisions for 1949: unnamed angels had been found to put a fresh $300,000 behind the sagging Chicago Rockets; Brooklyn's football Dodgers would merge with New York's football Yankees; A.A.C. would operate...
What Will the Traffic Bear? In Philadelphia and Cleveland, club owners vied for the privilege of trying to sign such top 1948 college stars as Nevada's champion passer, Stan Heath, Southern Methodist's snake-hipped quarterback, Doak Walker (who still has another year of college play), Pennsylvania...
THE TAX DODGERS (288 pp.)-Elmer L Irey, as told to William J. Slocum-Greenberg ($3).
A few months before his death, Irey (who had always discouraged publicity) was persuaded by a publisher to tell his story to William J. Slocum. The Tax Dodgers points up one of the unpleasantly ironical facts of political life in the U.S.: that pimps (like Bioff), murderers, political racketeers and...
The Tax Dodgers should be required reading in civics and political science classes throughout the U.S. Few books provide such detailed proof of the breakdown of political morality in the face of bribery and corruption. Irey, who wasn't greatly surprised by the rottenness he uncovered, found "something impressive...