Word: crapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, tight-lipped hood from Brooklyn named Joseph ("Crazy Joey") Gallo. In 1959, when he met Robert Kennedy, then counsel for Senator John Mc-Clellan's rackets-investigating committee, Crazy Joey examined Kennedy's office rug and offered his professional opinion: "It would be nice for a crap game...
...career out of the engagements that the pair has since turned down: Evelyn, for instance, has bypassed invitations from the Salzburg, Glyndebourne and Spoleto festivals. Heavily in demand for knotty contemporary scores, they have been especially careful to avoid being stereotyped in what Evelyn once called "this modrun crap." have studiously built up a repertory of classical roles...
...game. "It seems as if I've been trying to get that week's pay back ever since," says Fred now, a quarter of a century later. As he floated from jazz joint to jazz joint around the U.S., Fred became a regular at the race tracks, crap tables and poker games. But he never won the week's pay back, succeeded only in blowing $75,000 more. He became hooked on alcohol and drugs, stole money from his wife, rifled his children's piggy bank, went through an $8,000 inheritance from his father...
Once a friend volunteered to help bail him out of his debts if he would stop gambling. Fred's resolve lasted until he got his next paycheck, which he promptly lost in a crap game. "I was on a one-way train that had only two stops-suicide or death," says Fred. But he managed to jump off the train with the help of an organization called Gamblers Anonymous...
...compulsive gamblers in this country who drop $20 billion a year. At weekly meetings, stories like Fred's are heard every week (as in A.A., members are referred to only by their first names). An hour before his wedding. Businessman Danny fled a raided crap game, scrambled over a barbed-wire fence, tore his wedding clothes, and gashed his hands; he finally made the church in borrowed clothes and with bandages decorating both hands up to his wrists. Joe, a former minor-league baseball player, kited $100,000 worth of bad checks, went to prison, where he promptly began...