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...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...
...gets stabbed, and rounded out the cast with a glassy-eyed, crooked, gambling-hall owner surrounded by inscrutable orientals who paddle after him and stab nice but clever international policemen. This crew wades through the plot outlined in formula number six, involving money, beautiful women, money, diamond necklaces, money, dice games, money, motor yachts, and money...
...speech: if a child could talk, they decided, he could learn. They collected 15,000 pictures from magazines, made the youngest children form words about them. "Maybe after 20 times," says Pat Aid, "a child will suddenly achieve one small sentence." For older children they used card games, dice and bingo to teach numbers, taught sewing, weaving and elementary reading. Teacher Aid acted out such stories as Little Red Riding Hood with exaggerated expressions...
...payday for the 3,000 men aboard the U.S.S. Midway, anchored off the French Riviera. One by one, 16 bluejackets disappeared into a storage room below the carrier deck for a little forbidden pleasure. There they got out their bankrolls, settled to their knees. The soft clack of dice and the whisper of plaintive invocations went on all night until the kitty reached some $3,000. Then the door opened, and three more bluejackets pushed in. But these were different: hoods masked their faces, they whispered commands, and they waved pistols. The crapshooters were ordered to stand facing the bulkheads...
...spinning wheels was perhaps a trifle higher in pitch. "Must be really stuck this time, he thought. "Better get help." He stuck his head out the window. The street was deserted. A helluva note thought Vag, as he again tried to rock his car off the ice. No dice...