Word: cards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, the prison has never had any trouble with the gamblers. For one thing, only card games are permitted, and only cons with records of good behavior can be appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock...
Although Warden Jack Fogliani, the prison's new boss, has decreased the amount of gambling by putting more prisoners out in the open air on work details, the card tables are still busy. The convicts themselves are responsible for keeping the games clean. Says one: "The inmates control the gambling. They watch out and keep the trouble down, because they don't want to lose this privilege. Listen, most of these guys know all about cheating; they could outcheat anybody. So there isn't any. They ride herd on it." Adds he: "This is probably the most...
...Gwen Cafritz was flatly contradicted by Washington Daily News Columnist Carol LeVarn. What Gwen told Carol, according to Carol: "You never know who men are at parties. The other night at dinner I sat next to a good-looking grey-haired man and I picked up his place card. It said. 'Mr. McDonald.' Well, Mr. McDonald could be anybody. I said, 'What do you do, Mr. McDonald?' and he said, 'You dumb broad, I'm on the front pages all over the country!' I: Gwen's dinner companion: striking A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworkers...
...series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score the triumph of her career...
...course, make every effort to increase the efficiency with which it handles applications. But for the absent-minded who, memories beclouded by paper deadlines and tutorial appointments, miss the brief eight-hour interval on Wednesdays, student tickets should be available until game time, simply on presentation of bursar's card and coupon...