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...After serving three and a half years in Federal prison and seven years in Massachusetts State Prison, Ponzi was deported in 1934, has been living in Rome ever since...
Yale speakers will compete against the Crimson on October 31 in the Public Library auditorium, while trips to the State Prison Colony at Norfolk; Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Yale, Amherst, McGill are planned. No one will be allowed to participate in the spring H-Y-P Coolidge Prize trials unless he has tried out in the October or February Council trials. Membership will be restricted to 20 members this year...
...some $500,000. Indicted were President Harry Triandafillou of Royal Cigarette Corp., Abraham Goodman & Lewis H. Sugarman (makers of Kismet and special club brands), and Retailer Benjamin Seckler. If convicted on all counts, Mr. Triandafillou's company faces a maximum $25,000 fine, himself 123 years in prison...
...60th birthday, Upton Sinclair published his 60th book (Little Steel), wryly declared: "If I were asked to name the one definite thing I have accomplished in my public career I believe it would be that I got an exercise courtyard in the State prison* of Delaware...
...restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...