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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Dad's Last MIG | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

After months of rolling little white dice on a local manhole cover, the CRIMSON'S business people happily announce the completion of their annual University telephone book. The business board will furthermore enrich itself by selling the book for 50 cents today at dining hall entrances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Phone Book Hawked In Every Dining Hall Today | 11/25/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Phone Book Hawked In Every Dining Hall Today | 11/25/1952 | See Source »

...that quickly caught his eye was a Dutch tavern scene showing men shooting dice. The President pulled up a chair to study the painting, and remarked that it would be a fine gift for soandso. (Afterward, Kohen loyally insisted that he could not remember the name the President used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Something for Bess | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...ground floor was the recreation room, a large, round, bleak affair, as dreary as a nightclub in daylight. Beside the gambling table was a huge steel cabinet bulging with roulette wheels, dice, hundreds of decks of playing cards with Esquire-style pin-up girls on the back. On a key board hung keys to every room in the palace, and to dozens of apartments in Cairo, with the names of the occupants attached on neat labels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A KING'S HOME | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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