Word: diced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exiled. Figueira, a gambler named William Angell, and Bookmakers John and Francis Sullivan sang to a grand jury in return for a promise of leniency from the D.A. Angell told how the mayor, with Figueira's connivance, had raided his competitors, had hushed up a robbery at his dice joint. Angell told of paying off in $500 chunks. Figueira testified that Peirce had shut down bookies who did not deal with the Sullivans, while the Sullivans flourished and prospered...
...double-or-nothing roll, with one die apiece and high man the winner. Smith accepted. He rolled an ace. The gambler made his roll-another ace. Smith rolled again-a three. The gambler rolled a four-and walked out with the $180,000 he had lost at the dice table. The Smiths took it as part of the day's work...
...plot thickens, Randy sickens. When his fever hits 104°, the runaways hole up with a heroin-peddling doctor who shoots Randy full of antibiotics. Randy recovers, but, at 39, he is sure that all of life's dice are loaded; he has little faith in second chances, especially sexy ones. He advises Rowdy to go home to her insurance salesman, which indeed she does, but not before she sees Randy cut down in a hail of bullets...
...belatedly become the focus of his life: with nine MIG kills to his credit, he is one of the three top U.S. jet aces.-At 25, Jim Low thousht of himself as a failure and a misfit. He had tried being a gambler, but could get nowhere with cards, dice or horses. Raised in Sausalito, a California town across the bay entrance from San Francisco, he had served three wartime years in the Navy as a radarman ("a long, dull tour of duty, mostly with convoys"), had then gone to college on the G.I. Bill. But he could...
Gross errors of fact can be put straight by calling the CRIMSON before 5 p.m. at KI 7-2811 or dropping by at the 14 Plympton St. office. If any student wishes to offer dice more infallible than ours, he will also be welcomed...