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...world searching for its is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows, there is little romance in their jobs and they often become upset. Some times they even slug law abiding citizens...
...paid off its mortgage with $5,000 from Smith; Mormons and members of the Church of the Nazarene have also benefited from his bounty. The source of Smith's largess: gambling. As head of Reno's famed Harold's Club, Ray Smith is the greatest crapshooter. blackjack player, roulette fan and bookmaker of them all-and he aims to stay that way by creating all the good will he can among the local citizens...
...strategically, fix them so that they pay out 97% of what is put into them. By thus keeping the house take low on their 800 slots, they build up customers' confidence for bigger bets-at eleven crap tables (where the house has a mathematical edge of 1.4%), 29 blackjack tables (2½%), nine roulette wheels (5.2%) and the horses. Winners are always paid off in silver dollars (except for big games). The Smiths have found that a pocketful of silver dollars is a temptation to keep on gambling, and $50,000 in dollars are always kept on hand...
...Nineteenth century thieves' cant: a blackjack...
...French court had just decided that, although Duclos had been arrested during the Communist Ridgway riots on May 28 in a car fitted out with blackjack, loaded pistol and those two famous eating squabs (TIME, June 16), he was not in flagrante delicto (caught in the act), and was therefore entitled to parliamentary immunity as a member of the National Assembly. The five-man Paris appeals court (from whose decision there is no appeal) is headed by President Paul Didier, member of the Communist-backed "Peace Partisans...