Word: blackjacking
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HAROLDS CLUB OR BUST! read signs plastered all over the U.S. West, luring millions of Americans to the biggest gambling joint in Reno. So profitable was the lavish emporium of slot machines, roulette, and blackjack tables that the original outlay of $600 by its owners, a thrifty family of Vermonters named Smith, paid off $16,675,000 when they sold last week to a Manhattan syndicate. Still spinning the club's wheel of chance as manager: Harold S. Smith, son of the founder and author of an autobiography aptly titled I Want to Quit Winners...
...puffs of chalk along the base line with his accurate overspin backhands. Neale Fraser, 28, hampered all year by a bad knee, forced the Italians into error after error with neatly placed volleys. Star of the team was wiry Roy Emerson. 25, a tireless technician who plays like a blackjack shark: he does not hit hard, but he thinks fast and rarely makes an error of judgment. Last week Emerson got Australia off to a 1-0 lead by trouncing Pietrangeli 8-6. 6-4, 6-3. Then he teamed with Fraser to win the doubles, and rounded...
...stars (sometimes including Powell himself) and material, has won steadily good reviews and the sort of ratings that turn admen respectful. Producer Powell has scored triumphs of surprise casting: Mickey Rooney in a superb portrayal of a lonely seaman in Somebody's Waiting, Milton Berle as a blackjack dealer in Doyle Against the House, Jack Carson as a beatnik in Who Killed Julie Greer? Under the subtle direction of Ralph Nelson, Four Star's Three Soldiers (about mercenaries) was one of the outstanding dramatic productions of the autumn, recalling the somewhat golden days of TV's great...
...competition was being solicited to pony up for the New Frontier. Even more meaningful was the notation in the lower left-hand corner: "cc: The Honorable Stewart Udall." As he said later, Interior Secretary Udall was "appalled" and "flabbergasted" when he learned that his name was being used to blackjack political funds from the oil and gas industry, over which the Interior Department holds life-and-death powers. Udall tried, unsuccessfully, to get the letters recalled. But beyond that, he remained silent, and it remained for Washington Columnist Peter Edson to break the story last week...
...royal ex-husband, Iran's former Queen Soraya, 28 and childless, turned up in Las Vegas in the unlikely company of TV's Wyatt Earping Actor Hugh O'Brian, 33. Heading for the gaming tables, Soraya professed herself a greenhorn at the deceptively simple game of blackjack. Soon relieved of about $40 by his beautiful visitor, Soraya's casino host sportingly volunteered: "She seemed to count pretty good." O'Brian, asked if he had serious matrimonial designs on his date, drawled: "You'd better ask the princess." Soraya, once a queen but never...