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...cheat yourself at craps-use the correct odds. This is the advice of John Scarne, professional magician and gambling authority for Yank magazine, who worked out the mathematics of the armed forces' No. 1 sport. By last week he had sent copies of the odds (printed on cards small enough to paste into helmets) to more than 2,000,000 servicemen. Scarne's table...
...sponsor himself. During a brief stay in Washington, he had passed harsh judgment on Cordell Hull's Moscow achievements-so harsh, in fact, that Hearst's N.Y. Daily Mirror rejoiced: "To use Mr. Landon's own expressive word again, the Moscow conference was a 'cheat'. . . . We need more of the Landon type of outspoken courage today." Some Republicans felt they could do with a bit less of it, and ex-President Herbert Hoover gallantly came to Mr. Landon's rescue. "The Governor did not take a position in opposition to the Moscow pact," explained...
...more discouraging conclusions . . . is that membership in the so-called character-building organizations (such as Scouts, Y.M.C.A.) seems to have little influence in curbing the tendency to cheat. . . . Members of such organizations cheat slightly more than nonmembers...
...more brothers & sisters a pupil had, the greater the tendency to cheat...
...Pupils whose mothers worked outside the home tended to cheat less than others...