Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Book-of-the-Month Club. For the most part it covers the story as narrated in his previous writings, with some addition of philosophical and anecdotal material. The author tells, for example, how he spurred a subject to guess every card right in the pack of 25 by betting him $100 on each card. He also confesses that he did not pay the $2,500 bet...
Last of Harvard's great halfback line, which also had John Dorman and Frank Vincent, Danny Burbank graduated last spring. Coach Carr is missing him this fall. With the opening game against Brown on October 9, only George Phillips, southpaw, is a safe bet to start at halfback. Bob Scott, married man, who played center half regularly in 1936, knows only too well about the competition in 1937. Freshman Coach Jim MacDonald has sent up a member of potential middle ground stars, including Jim Rousmaniere, Robin Scully, and Charles d'Autremont. Ned Whitney and Bernie Jacobson, of last year...
Hero of the most gigantic U. S. betting stories is the late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
...another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought to him that the horse on whom he had bet $12,000, had won but had been disqualified. Rooney went on talking football. On another occasion he nipped a coin to decide where he would place a $20,000 bet...
Come, come, TIME, don't hold out on us. Did or did not Publisher Boettiger read Westbrook Pegler's scoring of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger in his column Monday, Aug. 9 [TIME, Aug. 23! ? I'll bet you that orchid you wear that John Boettiger saw it and had "the courage not to care" whether Pegler's column appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. MURIEL SHANNON...