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...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...
...themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones in the barn when an opponent rolled over a lantern...
...While CRAP (Committee to Repress Anti-Pickets) declined to appear, Jon Harrington '63 staged a one-man "maverick" picket apparently in support of the Birch group, but then "not really...
While uncertain as to how large her own demonstration will be, Miss Smith remarked that she "could not take CAMP seriously." She considers CRAP "ridiculous...