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No Hocus-Pocus. No "Spirit" Messages.
$10,000 Bond posted in forfeit to back
our predictions. Circular on request.
SANDS of TIME, Inc.
Majestic Bldg., Suite 700
(adv.)

- Legal Notice
To whom it may concern, greetings; I, John Cabot Winthrop III, of the
firm Winthrop, Winthrop, Ditmars & Winthrop, Attorneys-at-Law, do affirm that
Hugo Pinero of this city did hand to me ten thousand dollars in lawful money
of the United States, and instruct me to place it in escrow with a chartered
bank of my selection with escrow instructions as follows:.


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 The entire bond shall be forfeit, and shall forthwith be paid to the first
client of Hugo Pinero and/or Sands of Time, Inc. who shall exceed his life
tenure as predicted by Hugo Pinero by one per centurn, or to the estate of
the first client who shall fail of such predicted tenure in a like amount,
whichever occurs first in point of time.
I do further affirm that I have this day placed this bond in escrow with
the above related instructions with the Equitable-First National Bank of this
city.
Subscribed--and sworn,
John Cabot Winthrop Ill

Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 2nd day of April, 1951.
Albert M. Swanson
Notary Public in and for this county and state
My commission expires June 17, 1951.

"Good evening Mr. and Mrs. Radio Audience, let's go to Press! Flash!
Hugo Pinero, The Miracle Man from Nowhere, has made his thousandth
death prediction without a claimant for the reward he posted for anyone who
catches him failing to call the turn. With thirteen of his clients already dead it
is mathematically certain that - he has a private line to the main office of the
Old Man with the Scythe. That is one piece of news I don't want to know
before it happens. Your Coast-to-Coast Correspondent will not be a client of
Prophet Pinero. . ."
The judge's watery baritone cut through the stale air of the courtroom.
"Please, Mr. Weeds, let us return to our muttons. This court granted your
prayer for a temporary restraining order, and now you ask that it be made
permanent. In rebuttal, Mr. Pinero claims that you have presented no cause
and asks that the injunction be lifted, and that I order your client to cease
from attempts to interfere with what Pinero describes as a simple - lawful
business. As you are not addressing a jury, please omit the rhetoric and tell
me in plain language why I should not grant his prayer."
Mr. Weeds jerked his chin nervously, making his flabby Grey dewlap