Word: count
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work habits are abominable. He is busiest when the sky over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill...
...Harvard Motor Sports Car Club, making every effort count, won the Boston Motor Sports Club Hillclimb at Mt. Belknap, N.H., last weekend. Of four HMSC entries in the five-team rally, three took firsts-in-their-class, and one placed third-in-class...
...Holaday, who was head of the abolished guided missiles office. But that basic split-up is only the beginning: assorted segments of the U.S. space effort belong to the Air Force, Army and Navy. Crisscrossing all the civilian and military groups is a misbegotten organizational web that at last count included 42 committees...
...precise detail, Herbert Stempel, a paper genius (IQ: 170) and onetime patient of a psychiatrist, related how Twenty One's Enright had set him up for the fix ("How would you like to win $25,000?"), schooled him on how to perform ("Count off and mumble, suddenly open [your] eyes, give a dazzling smile and explode with the answers"), and ordered him to bow before the engaging erudition of Charlie Van Doren. Stempel walked off with a consoling $49,500 in winnings. But when he quickly blew the money, Stempel became disillusioned, started leaking stories...
...beginning, Miraglia told police, he always felt that he would spend only what he later could repay. "But I got in so deep I couldn't stop. I lost count of what I was spending." From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room...