Word: backgammoner
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...movies (but not first-run ones) without having to wait in line.* The fancy prices also cover the cost of 1) roomy love seats, 2) hearing aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies' room. Non-reserved seats will be sold (for 60?) at the box office. But Reade hopes there will be few available. Subscriptions to date: more than 50% of the theater's 599-seat capacity...
...Dewey is all business. His only relaxations are an occasional game of backgammon with handsome Mrs. Dewey, a swim with his two young sons, infrequent golf, a horseback ride on his 350-acre dairy farm at Pawling, penny-ante poker with his Pawling friends...
...money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous-the only dice he had ever owned had come with parchesi and backgammon sets...
Edsel seldom made headlines, either in his stewardship or in private life. His houses in Detroit, Seal Harbor and Hobe Sound were lavish. He had three yachts. But his likes were extremely simple. In the evenings, he often sat around playing hearts, rummy or backgammon with his family. At his $3,000,000 Seal Harbor house, he loved to prowl along the rocky Maine coast with his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford (whom he had married in 1916), to find a cozy corner in the lee of a boulder and read to her in his soft, shy voice. He played tennis...
...Fair was the game business. Less harried by shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...