Word: backgammoner
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...something was terribly wrong in the life of Comedian Freddie Prinze. After a few games of backgammon at his TV producer's home late last week, he returned to his $695-a-month apartment in the plush Beverly Comstock Hotel. Depressed, he called his parents and his psychiatrist. He told them he was going to kill himself. His secretary and his business manager, Marvin Snyder, had come over to cheer him up. Then, with Snyder still present, Prinze hung up the phone after talking with his estranged wife Katherine, reached down into the sofa's cushions, pulled...
...Saturday, the swords did not swing as smoothly however, as the squad fell victim to the effects of some late night backgammon, and faded badly in the final round against the Swedish-studded NYU team...
...Some of us were up all night playing backgammon," one team member said, "and we were pretty tired by the third round...
...change him. The couple had three children, but Lady Lucan saw little of her husband. She was often depressed, and the Earl twice tried to have her committed. His own behavior came to follow an almost obsessive pattern: lunch at a gaming club, usually the Clermont, cards or backgammon in the afternoon, home to bathe and change, back to the tables in the evening...
...Baron Arnaud de Rosnay is no run-of-the-disco jet-setter. The dashing entrepreneur already has behind him careers as France's national surfboard champion, a photojournalist, a publicist and a backgammon promoter. Now, like a man who contemplates an ocean and invents the squirt gun, De Rosnay has come up with a parlor game based on the energy crisis...