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LAYNE ADMITS FIX...
District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said yesterday that another of City College of New York's championship basketball stars, Floyd G. Layne, has admitted taking part in the 'fix scandal.' Layne confessed he received $2,500 in bribes and $500 in "bonuses." As a result, C.C.N.Y. quit basketball for the rest of the season...
...confessed that he had used drugs for a year-first marijuana on a dare from a schoolmate, then the virulent morphine derivative, heroin. The drug made him feel "high and light," and after he met a peddler named "Greasy George," he started using it regularly. To get a "fix" of heroin he had only to ask George: "Do you need a boy?" or "Have you got a thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied, the boy and his friends would...
...Annex's roster of 3,000 temporary workers. All they had to do was punch in at 5:30 p.m., while away the evening hours and return to punch out again at 2 a.m. If anyone squawked, the whispered threat of a politician's name would fix...
This Winter's Events Fix the Goal and Plot the Course