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...between $20 billion and $30 billion on gambling-but they never lose interest. The lure of winnings without work is so powerful that neither moral censure, nor restrictive legislation, nor the tears of race-track widows-let alone mere losses-has ever been able to dampen it. Gambling has bred crime and corruption; it has also financed wars, built schools and churches, and, on Wall Street, produced something called People's Capitalism. "Gambling," a congressional committee once said, "is the lifeblood of the nation...
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Ostrow and Rome are, naturally, wrong. Society Bandleader Lester Lanin noticed not long ago that the well-bred teen-agers at his deb parties had begun to ask him to play the Mr. Clean song (composer: Adman Thomas Cadden) or the Newport cigarette cha cha cha. Last week Lanin, who has made a career of knowing where the money is, announced the title of his next long-playing record: Lester Lanin on Madison Avenue, jingle tunes without words, played at our-song tempo...
...last year Sellers had improved enough to finish creditably in the jockey standings. This year there are no flashy tricks behind his success. "I like to help a horse come out of the gate and settle on his own stride," says Sellers. "He's bred for that. Of course there comes a time when we have to get up and run." Instead of going to the whip, Sellers can usually get his horse running by clucking gently in his ear and by pumping his arms and legs in rhythm with the animal's stride...
...Britain itself, reform is resisted. Last week the Institute of Chartered Accountants warned that unless Britain abandoned ?, s. and d., it would be by 1965 "the last significant upholder of that system." Britons, as usual, heard the announcement with the stony silence usually reserved for ill-bred bounders...