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After reporters clearly established that the fix was on. the Portland papers called in the police and the FBI. In Detroit authorities learned that "Harry Valk" was Harry H. Balk, a shadowy freelance booking agent who had not only collected the prize money wired from Portland but had won $4,400 on his own last December in a puzzle contest in the Chicago American. Last week Balk was hibernating in Brooklyn. The probability that the fix was bigger than Balk arose when Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the U.S. Senate rackets committee, disclosed that racketeers had attempted to bribe...
...evidence of fix accumulated, one defendant already stood accused and convicted. That is the newspaper-puzzle gimmick itself, which, in its hot pursuit of quick circulation, has always been a highly questionable journalistic practice...
...years, the Seattle Times' s Prize Cross word contest has pulled 19,845,000 entries, has paid off fewer than 200 winners. Circulation gain, not necessarily attributable to the contest: 10,000. *Another kind of fix has plagued the Pionc.fr Press. A few years ago some winning contest entries came from two postal clerks who. working independently of each other, waited until solutions were printed, then submitted entries with phony, before-the-deadline postmarks...
...comparatively few airplanes or stations have the full distance-measuring equipment. But a navigator or pilot can get a fix by tuning in two stations and getting his bearing from each. His position is the point where the two bearing lines cross on the chart. VOR/DMET uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters...
...years passed and his sources of information became widespread and quite reliable, Rothstein made millions by investing in fixed situations and "just letting them happen." By betting on the fixes of others, Rothstein also kept his hands technically clean-he was never convicted of breaking the law. In the case of the 1919 World Series, Rothstein has often been accused of having fixed the Chicago White Sox players' defeat. He denied it, but he probably prompted the fix and certainly won $350,000 by betting...