Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detailed the robbers' troubles, knew where to begin looking right after the sensational heist. They all searched their files and memories for the names of former habitues of Roberts Lounge, a bar near the airport where known cargo thieves, airline cargo handlers and plainclothes cops mingled, drank and bet on horses. The bar changed hands two years ago, but its current customers buzzed with gossip about the huge theft. Both federal and local investigators promptly began tailing the most likely suspects. Their problem was not so much whodunit, but how to prove...
...dollar bet with friends inspired the stunt, which made Withington famous. Calls came from Hollywood; Garry Moore and Ernie Kovacs invited him on their talk shows, and marriage proposals arrived through the mail...
Runyon's Law. The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.−Author Damon Runyon...
...Bet you didn't know that if you make a good movie at Carpenter Center it means something in the art-school, art-business world. Bet you didn't know that Harvard has a $60,000 Oxberry animation stand in the basement of Carpenter Center. Bet you don't even know what that...
...chance. The agents offered a chorus of refusals. "It seems too fragmented and dreamlike to be a good commercial bet," wrote Lurton Blassingame. "We regret that we do not have the time here to read unsolicited fiction," explained James Brown. Candida Donadio & Associates demurred with, "When all is said and done, we felt the manuscript lacked that all-important dramatic tension." And from the office of Knox Burger after two follow-up letters from Ross: "I'm very sorry, but we have no record of having received your MS. or postage.' Kosinski is philosophical about the fact that...