Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About your Art color pages [Sept. 16]: Has anyone else seen the likeness between the Infante Don Luis and Jimmy Durante? What do you bet that our beloved Jimmy is a Bourbon...
...calculate which games, of some several dozen each Saturday, are most likely to end in ties. The sacred ritual can keep a devotee busy all week with form sheets and result charts, and some are known to resort to the sliderule, the abacus or even tea leaves. For a bet in the football pools is matched only by the Irish Sweepstakes as the gambling world's biggest play, bringing a lucky winner tax-free riches well worth a lifetime of concentrated, calculating devotion. A 43-man syndicate won $967,640 a year ago, and one man once took home...
...Britain to get that many. Last week, uncomfortable in baggy suit and errant tie, Percy Harrison journeyed wide-eyed to London to receive, amid the pop of champagne corks and the glare of TV lights, the largest single win in the soccer-pool history: $947,400 on his bet of 520. "I felt a bit of a shiver come over me," said Harrison, after he heard he had won. In London to collect the money, he looked a little dazed: "I've never been the one for being away from home. I felt badly this morning on the train...
...college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion on sex. Food has a soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream, now concentrates on the bowel: man's nature, he says, can be divined in "the color, the shape, the odor and the movement" of his stool...
Lots of Sweat. There are a few spoilsports around the National League who insist that Perry's sudden prowess is due to another magic ingredient. "You want to bet $100 he doesn't throw a spitball?" challenges Cardinal Rightfielder Mike Shannon. The Giants, of course, deny it (though Perry slyly admits, "I do sweat a lot out there"). "He's a suspect to start with," says Farm Club Director Carl Hubbell. "Because he's having a helluva year, they all complain that he's got to be doing something funny...