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...embarrassing question: Who had paid for the 1958 remodeling of his six-room Harlem apartment? Cried Jack: "I haven't a damn thing to say about it, and you get the hell out of here." But a week later Jack admitted that Real Estate Operator Sidney J. Ungar, a longtime pal and Tammany Democrat, had picked up the $4,400 tab. It was not a gift. Jack insisted, merely a friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking...
...performing city business. Hogan also said that Jack, when first questioned officially about the apartment remodeling, had "concocted" a story that his wife, Almira, had paid Contractor-Painter Fred Bechtel out of her $100 weekly household allowance. "Prior to telling me this," Hogan said, "Mr. Jack had told Mr. Ungar that if he told me Mrs. Jack had made the payments . . . the investigation would be over because I would have so much confidence in what he said...
Died. Arthur Ungar, 64, editor since its founding (1933) of Hollywood's captious, oracular Daily Variety; of a heart attack; in Del Mar, Calif...
...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was sued for $50,000 by the mother of one of two men who held up a B. & O. streamliner in West Virginia. Mrs. Ruth Ungar complained that her boy had had a few when he got aboard the train. He was allowed more drinks in the diner, became "intoxicated and insouciant," and that's what led him to armed robbery, she argued. She didn't mention that George was on probation from an Ohio reformatory or explain why he was packing a pistol...