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When he left the service in 1945, says he, "the dice -were loaded. We had known all along we could mass-produce houses if there was a market for them and credit for builders. Now the market was there and the Government was ready with the backing. How could we lose...
...chances of making 28 straight passes with the dice in a crap game are "about ten million to one." But last week a young man walked into Las Vegas' plush new Desert Inn, and in one hour and 20 minutes of hair-raising play, did just that. His amazing run of luck cost the casino $125,000. Zeppo Marx won $28,000 in side bets, Gus Greenbaum, one of the owners of a rival club, raked in $48,000, and others among the gamblers who crowded four-deep around the table carried off thousands more...
...Binaggio-Gargotta gang, a potent force in Jackson County's corrupt Democratic political machine, had also operated, said the grand jury, a Kansas City gambling ring which had grossed as much as $34,500,000 a year. Its gambling enterprises included dice and card games ($19 million), numbers racket ($3,500,000), bookmaking on horse racing, baseball, football ($12 million). Among the Binaggio-Gargotta partners in the biggest crap game in Kansas City, said the grand jury, were Jackson County's Superintendent of Buildings Robert S. Greene, at week's end still on the job, and Assistant...
...that drew the crowds in crushing throngs. They paid only bemused attention to the pink-painted Joshua tree (with gardenias hung from its limbs as presents for the ladies) and the big bar with a nude painting that lighted every hour on the hour. They jammed about the five dice tables, three roulette wheels and four "21" tables. The house had some fevered moments-gamblers from the competing Flamingo took a whirl at breaking the bank, but left in disgust, $60,000 losers. Movie Star Bud Abbott sat at a "21" table for two hours, finally got up with...
Mahogany Shaker. They spun old-fashioned spinning wheels, fondled tomahawks and dueling pistols, peered through a telescope (see cut) carried by Lewis & Clark on the exploration up the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. They even shook dice in a gleaming mahogany shaker from a palatial riverboat of the 1880s, the Grand Republic. As the children examined the trophies, two of Van Ravenswaay's museum staffers gave them a running account of the frontier history the objects represented...