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These days, no time clock daunts the coffee-breakers, and no office manager's frown. The office worker who arrives at 9 o'clock runs the risk of being trampled by the 8:30 arrivals who have had time to hang up their coats, fix their faces and conscientiously flutter a few papers. Young stenographers have found that they can squeeze in a few minutes of extra sleep by dashing for the office, dashing right out again for breakfast coffee and a cruller. Said a Boston stenographer: "If I couldn't look forward to some coffee...
Kase knew what he was talking about; he was the man who told the D.A. about it in the first place. Kase, 53, a veteran newsman, and sports editor of the Journal for 13 years, had suspected for a long time that Madison Square Garden basketball games were fixed to come out right for the gamblers. A few months ago, he began dropping in casually on gambling joints and sports hangouts, asking discreet questions and listening. With a few facts to justify his suspicions, Kase also turned his reporters loose on the job of trying to discover the "fix...
...Blame. Most of the editorial writers, who sought to fix the blame for the scandal, vibrated noisily in their own keys. The good grey Times (which has never printed tables of basketball's betting figures) thought "the home, the neighborhood, the campus, the college" at fault for fostering "a crooked, distorted sense of values." The Chicago Tribune blamed it all on the New Deal. Manhattan's Daily Worker tied it in with "profiteering chairmen of Wall Street corporations, with bankers, big-shot politicians grabbing the war contracts...
...feloniously kill and slay 84 people in its commuter wreck at woodbridge, N.J. (TIME, Feb. 19) and turned 84 separate manslaughter indictments against the railroad. Conviction would bring a maximum fine of $84,000. Said Prosecutor Alex Beber: "The fine is not important. The important thing is to fix responsibility...