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Farewell to Alms. In Fullerton, Calif., Car Salesman Robert W. Huff, 30, charged with bilking seven Baptist churches of some $93,000 worth of building bonds, explained that he had to finance his trips to Las Vegas dice tables in order to win money to keep up payments on his new Cadillac, yacht, house trailer and jeep, told police he got the "gambling fever" after "I started pitching quarters...
Farsighted Gamblers. Before Strickland came to town, every cub reporter in New Orleans knew that Sheriff William S. Coci's Jefferson Parish was the place to roll dice on green felt tables and bet on the hushed whirl of the roulette wheel. But no reporter could document the story in depth because the farsighted gamblers had taken the precaution of getting pictures of every newsman in town. When a reporter showed up, sharp-eyed bouncers gave him the thumb...
After ten days and nights, Strickland had the facts and figures he needed. In his five installments, Strickland documented the corruption with such facts as the addresses of 27 places where he found illegal slot machines, told where to lay bets or roll dice, and reported: "I have seen horse bets placed, and openly discussed, while a policeman sat drinking a cup of coffee almost within arm's reach of the bookie." Strickland's summation of Jefferson Parish: "A giant new octopus of organized gambling is flexing its tentacles for an even bigger grab. It is little short...
...Maloney and Joe McLaughlin. A Langley sample: "So the prostitution is out. And now it's no good, and we don't want it anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only way you're going to do any good is cards, high dice. Like I told you all along, cards and book, and then if you get into the pinballs and punchboards, that's all right. That bootleg joint, if it'll-if it will go if you can make anything. That's all right...
...chief characteristic. A sign of the times might be detected in Careers, a new board game put out by Parker Brothers, the Salem, Mass, firm that struck it rich with Monopoly in the '30s. In Careers, as in Monopoly, luck is still presented by dice and the practical world by play money, but each player in Careers decides in advance on his own goal-money, fame, happiness or a combination...