Daily News (New York) dated Thursday March 28th 1991
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Judge Gustin Reichbach was a student activist at
Columbia University during the 1960’s and then became a lawyer in New York.
This condoms incident happened just three months after he became a judge and
had been assigned to the ‘grave-yard shift’ or Night Court. As a result of the
Daily News front page he was transferred to the Civil Court. A long and
sometime controversial career followed and he died of cancer this year (2012).
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Alfred Visconti was apparently murdered because he was gay
and/or a police informer, neither of which would have been tolerated by his
Mafia bosses.
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4 men escaped from a high security (obviously
not high enough) prison in upstate New York but 2 were retaken the same night.
Kenny Ryan was arrested as he left the 53rd Street subway station in
Brooklyn on March 20th and George Gatto was caught on April 16th.
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For any ‘Dr Who’ fans that are interested there is a YouTube
film of the Bonhams Auction here
at the end of which a Dalek is sold for £6400.
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Aldo Ray started his film career in 1951 and by 1955 was
co-starring with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov in ‘We’re No Angels’. By the
70’s he was appearing in small roles in small films and had been diagnosed with
throat cancer. Hollywood, showing its infinite good will to all men, revoked his
Screen Actors Guild membership because he was acting in non-union films just to
pay his medical bills.
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Democrat Douglas Wilder never made it to Pennsylvania
Avenue. Having declared as a candidate in 1992 he withdrew early in the race.
He was the first Black Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994 and Mayor of
Richmond from 2004 until 2009.
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Anthony Riggs’ wife Toni Cato Riggs and her brother Michael
Cato were tried for his murder and Michael Cato was convicted but Toni was
acquitted.
And that could have been the end of the story, but a year
later an undercover DEA operation accidentally filmed Toni Cato Riggs
confessing to the murder of her husband. She was re-arrested, tried and
convicted.
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Donnie Walhberg went on from ‘New Kids on the Block’ to join
his brother Mark Walhberg as a film actor.
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Elevator surfing apparently became a popular way of killing
one’s self at American University campuses (campi?) in the early 1990’s and is
still going on.
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Chester Gould created the Dick Tracy comic strip in 1931 and
he wrote and drew it until 1977 when Max Allan Collins took over the writing.
By 1991 it was being drawn by Dick Locher who carried on until 2011.
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Doonesbury has been written and drawn by Garry Trudeau since
its creation in 1970. Both Dick Locher and Gary Truseau have won the Pulitzer
Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
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