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...forty-six, Trammell is pernickety about his clothes, neat as a pin around his office. Now he makes over $50,000 a year, lives on Park Avenue, likes to play golf, shoot crap, go fishing. Easily accessible in his NBC office, Trammell has a reputation for softheartedness, rarely fires a man until he has tried him on all kinds of assignments. As a new broom, he expects to do no drastic sweeping. When asked about his politics, he becomes a bit Socratic. "When you are born in Georgia," he inquires, "what are you usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Broom, No Sweep | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...office in September 1934 he has dismissed some 300 men, officially rebuked 3,000, fined 8,000. Most suicides, think the cops, are crushed between the Commissioner's sea-green honesty and granite discipline and the temptations that beset a Manhattan cop: the numbers games, horse betting, floating crap games, houses of prostitution, which all press money on the police for protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Policemen Suicides | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Everybody was just getting happily awash when the Beverly Hills police arrived to break up the crap game. The more prudish producers went home. By 2 o'clock only the drunks and the pretty girls were left. At 4 the fights began. By 6 the flunkeys were mopping up and sweeping together the fragments. Next day people counted their hangovers, declared it was one of the best Hollywood parties ever. There was some question whether the party made any money. After the 1938 party charity was reported to be only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Folies-Bergere | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Boss, I tells you what I thinks about this here war. Germany, some back, she starts a crap game, threw an eight, then falls off. Now she wants her money back and starts grabbing. The mistake was when she first started grabbing not knocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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