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...Hogan was hard hit by the murder of his friend and ally. "But we'll keep plugging," he said. Knowing that Filipinos are hypersensitive to criticism by Americans, he made a tactful comparison: "We must not be discouraged, especially when we remember that the New York waterfront vies with our own for the honors in racketeering...
...Unless honest men with courage fight this thing, nobody's life will be worth 10? on the waterfront. If the government, shippers and stevedoring companies work together, three months could see a marvelous birth of freedom and justice on the waterfront." Many young Filipino laborers lined up with Hogan. Said one: "The U.O.E.F. may have big government men behind them, but we have God's own senator on our side...
...fresh muck came to the surface when District Attorney Frank Hogan gathered in two more Long Island University stars, Nathan Miller and Lou Lipman. During the 1948-49 season, said Hogan, these two, plus the ubiquitous Ed Gard (TIME, Feb. 26) and two other L.I.U. players identified as "X" and "Y," made a deal to rig the L.I.U.-Duquesne game. The players decided to ask for $5,000-$1 ,000 apiece. But after the game, four of them held a little powwow without "X." "The boys," said Hogan, "were working out a cute one on 'X' ": Gard, Miller...
This cute doublecross might well have worked, Hogan thought, if player "Y," assigned to pick up the money from the fixer, hadn't been even cuter. He told his chums, said Hogan, that he didn't have the money-"Yes, I got the $5,000 but I gave it back." After a long hassle, Lipman managed to get $300 instead of the $1,100 he thought was coming...
...week's end, Hogan was still looking for "X," "Y" and others, and fans were going to hear still more of shameful behavior on the basketball court...