Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

the theft. He threatened to go to the local newspaper.”

“So that is why they offered him the hundred-dollar prize,” I said.

“It was hush money, Martha,” Evelyn said, leaning forward. “Harold corporate-funded the check to buy his brother’s silence and protect his own executive career. Ken took the check to protect his brother from ruin, but he could never continue reading …