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Render Unto Caesar. At Camp Rucker, Ala., Bible Salesman Leon Willie, 26, was fined $150 for gambling with minors after two G.I.s complained that he had taken $165 from them in a dice game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Specialists. In Philadelphia, raiding a city-operated health center, police found Custodian James Weathers and his wife Gladys selling whisky and beer to 16 dice-playing patrons in a doctor's conference room advertised on business cards as 'Gladys and Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Other spirited occasions took place in the great dining hall. A gay banquet was held in honor of King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales; boxing matches and dice games were not uncommon. The menu was unappealing, however: four dollars weekly for "fish, eggs, and dessert, with meat extra." Such fare drove many students to other places to eat, and 1925 saw the last scrambled eggs in Memorial Hall. Experimental mice in the University's Psychological Laboratories now scurry through the old basement kitchen...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Bluebooks in Valhalla | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

Just Us Historians. In Akron, police raided a 9-by-12-ft. room, inside found two chairs, a bed, a table, a dresser, three pairs of dice, twelve decks of cards, one bottle of gin and 23 men who explained that they had gathered "to discuss current events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...cutthroat confines of what Weaver likes to call "the high executive level" of radio and TV, there is no certainty that such a gambler can count on being around long enough even to see the last throws of his own dice. But if that was worrying NBC's Weaver last week, he did not show it. He had brought the excitement of the year to the business, forced his competitor CBS into some spectaculars of its own (although that is never admitted), and jarred the advertising men out of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Tall Gambler | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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