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Kilty always likes to include crowds of colorful townspeople where appropriate. Here some two dozen persons appeared from time to time--throwing dice, playing ring-toss, pitching apples, turning cartwheels, washing laundry and running about with flambeaux...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Kilty always likes to include crowds of colorful townspeople where appropriate. Here some two dozen persons appear from time to time--throwing dice, playing ring-toss, pitching apples, turning cartwheels, washing laundry and running about with flambeaux...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merchant of Venice | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...Monroe, Mich., when a deputy sheriff found 52 pairs of dice in Carroll Hawkins' car, Hawkins maintained that he was going to use them to make a top for his wife's coffee table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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