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...Vegas Story (RKO Radio] must have been easy for Jane Russell because she has done so many movies just like it. This time, Jane arrives in Las Vegas as the discontented wife of Vincent Price, a near-bankrupt broker who hopes to remake his fortune at the dice tables. To Jane, the visit is one long remembrance of things past, for it was in Las Vegas that she loved and left Victor Mature, a local policeman. In their big confrontation scene, Jane delicately dilates her nostrils and Victor clenches his jaw so hard that his ears wiggle, thus making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

Strictly for high brow crap games, this set of dice and roller will mark the recipient as a man of the world, whose fame and fortune are made on the next throw. It can also be given to those who play other games involving dice. The five dice fit into a compartment at the bottom of the roller, and the whole set cost just $3.50 at J. AUGUST'S, in the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

Street presented a moving scene. Sad-faced gamblers stood by as vans backed up and hauled away dice tables, roulette wheels and blackjack tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fish & Quips | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...evening meals, the dignity ended there. Gorging contests, in the finest Ciceronean style, were frequent. Students seemed to delight in scooping up fistfulls of sugar and waging pitched throwing battles during the course of the meal. The darker corners of the hall invariably echoed with the click of dice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Marks Its 75th Birthday; Cheers and Sneers Feature History | 11/15/1951 | See Source »

...Tokyo meant the first leg of the trip home. For others it meant only a temporary break in the dirty business of war. They had no yarns to swap, no desire to learn any more than they already knew about war. From a few groups came the click of dice, and the only voices audible over the distant roar of engines were the urgent pleas of crapshooters. At one group, a Red Cross worker paused to chat with a sergeant who had spent 13 months in Korea. Said the sergeant: "For 15 months the guys have been running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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