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...Bones. In Seattle, Pro Gambler Robert Dupree, who was hurt in an auto accident last year, claimed in court that his crap-shooting arm had been damaged, won a verdict for $9,500 after telling the court that "you have to get in an awkward position sometimes shooting dice, especially if you're trying to make a four the hard...
...redhead ("He came down with the crud"), still blinking at the audience like a dyspeptic owl, still relying on eager young entertainers as his guests. As he dipped for contestants' postcards into a huge revolving drum, he made no secret of his disgust with his new giveaway "crap game" ("This is the silliest thing"), grudgingly granted wishes of winners (Easter outfits, a washing machine) until he reached the request: "My dream is to own a mink coat, size 12." Then for a brief moment Godfrey smoldered. "Mink coat!" he scoffed. "I'll get ya fieldmouse." But before...
...Reno, rabid Forty Niners fans had every opportunity to shoot their football winnings at slot machine, crap table and roulette wheel. But they had nothing to gamble with until Quarterback John Brodie passed to Halfback Hugh McElhenny and won the game in the last 54 seconds, 17-13. After that, whether they won or lost at the gaming tables, the long ride home seemed short and sweet...
...Chase Smith said he had not spent enough time actively being a colonel (TIME, Sept. 2), shambling Cinema Good Guy Jimmy Stewart last week got a star anyway, and with it a title requiring no active duty at all: honorary sheriff of Elko County, Nev. (14,000 people, twelve crap joints...
...slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. I couldn't read the proletarian crap that came out in the '30s; again you had sentimentalism-the poor oppressed workers...