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Baltimore's sage, H. L. Mencken, coined a new term for strip-tease artistes: ecdysiasts-from Greek ekdysis; a getting out; ecdysis (in zoology): the act of molting...
...July, the same year, the body of a certain Walter Sage was tied to a slot machine, dumped into Swan Lake in the Catskill Mountains of Sullivan County...
...magistrate, elevated to a county judgeship. His brother had been mortally wounded by three gunmen during a Brooklyn café holdup. District Attorney O'Dwyer took office with a deep hatred of gangsters. Forthwith he assigned a staff of men to go back into the murders of Alpert, Sage, Rudnick, Penn...
...prices: anything from roughing up and terrorizing a racket victim to "removing" a State's witness, killing stool pigeons and underworld rivals. The killers worked for small pay: Pretty Levine, who told reporters he joined the gang at the age of 13, confessed he took part in the Sage killing for a net profit of one dollar...
...nearly so ambitious as the Brown plan, but a money-making radio venture nevertheless, was one uncovered last week at Dartmouth College by the show-business weekly, Billboard. The Dartmouth station, unofficially called WHD, is run by Senior Hugh Dryfoos of Manhattan in his room in Russell Sage Dormitory. Its audience: 40 other students in Russell Sage whose rooms are within WHD's broadcasting range-50 to 75 feet. WHD's transmitter: a one-tube gadget like those used in remote-control record players (and permitted license-free...