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...last nine months he was with the sheriff's office, George told the committee, he was a collector for a group of deputies and received $800 weekly to be split up. He said that $300 of the money came from the S & G Syndicate, $300 from the swank Sunny Isles Casino and $200 from the operation of bolita, the Cuban numbers game. Occasional raids were made on these establishments, but only after the management had been tipped off first. In the period, George estimated he took in about $50,000 and kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: Florida Songbird | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Staff members in the mathematics department suggested it is a literary rather than a scientific argument. Their department is split on the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midcentury -- Is It '50 or '51? | 12/8/1950 | See Source »

...still uncertain just which defensive pair will start in front of Corning. Weiland has split the Dusty Burke-Bill Bliss combination; putting Burke with Jack carman, and Blies with Harry Sedgwick. But the former Bruin star isn't quite sure yet which pair will open the game...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Six Faces Tech Tonight As Weiland Makes Bow | 12/5/1950 | See Source »

...been under temporary British care. Three years ago, the Big Four (Britain, France, Russia, U.S.) drafted a peace treaty with Italy in which the final disposition of Eritrea was left for U.N. decision. A five-member mission studied the problem, even visited the former Italian colony, but the commission split, made three separate reports. Last week the Eritrea issue came up for discussion before the General Assembly's Special Political Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Toward the Sea | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known Cartoonist Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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