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...Roman Catholic parish in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England has found something better than bingo-a football pool and racing tip sheet combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rectory Handicapping | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...condemn the "socalled 'innocent' forms of gambling, such as legalized race-track wagers . . . lotteries, bingo and all activities which encourage the false belief that life consists of getting something for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptists' Business | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...whacks at Wodehouse characters like a duffer with a No. 7 iron. There is the problem of Agnes Flack, when a Pekingese picks up her ball on the 18th green and carries it into the clubhouse-should she blast out with a niblick? And there is the predicament of Bingo Little, when his child's nurse, a motherly woman, trails him to an assignation to give him his woolly muffler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: P.G. Flitters On | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...called 'innocent' forms of gambling, such as legalized race-track wagers, betting on athletic events, lotteries, bingo and the like, contribute to weakening the moral fiber of the individual and lower the tone of the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Be It Resolved | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Pioche, a dusty mining town snuggled in the Nevada hills, Robert Roy Orr, 65, remembered afterwards: "There was a kinda flash lit up the window-a real big flash it was. With it comes a bang-bingo, just like that. I thought two cars must have hit into one another on the road outside. This white flash started on the ground and sort of swooshed up into the air." He added: "I reckoned there wasn't much I could do about it. So I just sat down and ate my breakfast. What did you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: A Kinda Flash | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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