THIRTY-ONE years ago, Charlie Ponzi, a diminutive Italian drawing 16 dollars a week as a filing clerk in a Boston broker's office, had a bright idea. It was a wow, a wiz, a veritable humdinger of an idea: he would become a millionaire! And, sure enough, within a year he was--and not merely a millionaire, but a multimillionaire--as some 40,000 otherwise sane ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955), Sat 23 Sep 1950, Page 4
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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