Telegraph Office Scene in the Movie "The Sting" |
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hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com 13 Feb 2006 13:10:40 -0800
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Around 1973 a popular movie, "The Sting" with Robert Redford and Paul Newman came out. Redford and Newman were con artists. Part of their scheme involved making their target think they had advance horse race information from Western Union. That is, someone from a WU office would secretly pass along the results of a race upon receipt a few minutes before WU relayed the results to local offices.
To convince their target, the con artists "borrowed" a Western Union
It was a good movie. |
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