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Your statement [TIME, Aug. 19] that Tony Stralla feels that Angelenos deserve the luxury of his floating gambling enterprise because there isn't a professional crap game west of Reno hardly makes sense. Los Angeles is east of Reno, as every high-school geography student knows...
Last spring, however, his obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...
Plungers & Necklines. Triumphantly, last week, he opened for business. Thousands of suckers who had queued up at shoreside water-taxi landings stood shoulder to shoulder all night long on the Lux's casino deck. The ship's bingo corner, its 14 crap tables, 150 slot machines, twelve roulette wheels, five poker games, were busy until dawn. Order was kept by 26 polite, tough "masters-at-arms," i.e., seafaring bouncers. A band played and lush ladies with plunging necklines wandered about selling cigarets. Tony expansively predicted that nobody could touch...
...psychic games which Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine introduced to science-Extra-Sensory Perception (card-guessing) and Psychokinesis (crap-shooting)-psychologists have found crapshooting more fun. Rhine's PK ("mind over matter") theory, that man can control the fall of dice by will power (TIME, July 26, 1943), is now being tested on both sides of the Atlantic...
...four years, National League batsmen had been trying to fathom Rip Sewell's pet pitch. Rip called it an ephus ball after an old crap-shooting phrase, ephusiphus-ophus; sportswriters called it a blooper. Whatever its name, it was lobbed up to the plate, fat and inviting, with lots of backspin-and, if hit, usually popped up high in the air to the second-baseman...