Word: craps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plot of "Out of Line" centers about a young man, "Jay," played by Allen W. Mathis, Jr. '42, and his friend "Ted,' played by John E. O'Neil, Jr. '42, who inherit a college and also win a half dozen chorus girls in a crap game. In their attempt to rejuvenate the college with their chorines, "Jay" and "Ted" find themselves in a series of amorous and legal dilemmas, from which they finally succeed in extricating themselves...
...nevertheless pulsed with life. In Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a big-thighed prostitute stood in her doorway, looking dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th-of-a-second camera shutter could have done...
Colonel Pfeil's main task (under the technical supervision of Adjutant General Emory S. Adams) is to keep the boys from getting homesick. His weapons: motion pictures, ping-pong, baseball, pool tables, camp huts where soldiers can dance, play games (crap shooting is discouraged), write home under the eye of impregnably respectable middle-aged hostesses...
...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...
...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...