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...nightclub in Louisiana, and I have some oil leases in Texas." Pressed, he did admit that his nightclub (the famed Beverly Club near New Orleans) had a "casino." There was a little gambling in the casino: "Just to make it clear, they play the roulette wheel and dice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: The Fat Boys | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...tested were given cards on which poker hands were listed, such as "four of a kind." The cards also told them how much money they could win by betting five cents and beating the listed hand with a roll of five dice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Roll' em!' Cry Soc. Rel. Guinea Pigs | 4/25/1950 | See Source »

Last Chance. One night after dinner last week, Charlie Binaggio had his bodyguard Nick Penna drive him over to the Last Chance Tavern, a gambling joint which straddles the Missouri-Kansas line so that when the heat is on in one state, the dice tables can be shoved over into the other. There he met Charlie Gargotta, a gunman who was his chief "enforcer." Soon they left. Penna got up to go along. "You don't need to. come, Nick," said Binaggio. "We'll be'back in 15 or 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Murder on Truman Road | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Walter Abel as Gavin also suffers even more from this typing; he is cast as a representative of southern aristocracy with all the caricature that casting can imply. For some reason Mr. Logan has seen fit to equip this southern gentleman with a set of dice which he rolls intermittently throughout the play, an ineffective attempt at naturalism...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/17/1950 | See Source »

...while the House of Commons staged a full-fledged debate over whether Mr. Cube constituted plain advertising or political electioneering (British law requires that all electioneering expenses must be made public), Mr. Cube turned up in another incarnation. His sponsors distributed free some 500,000 sets of Mr. Cube dice, neatly boxed in a miniature sugar carton together with rules for a new game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules of play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tate v. State | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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