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Unfair. In Kansas City, Veteran Julian Tierney sued to get back his prewar job: loading crooked dice...
Double Take. In Manhattan, police raided a dice game, found two thieves holding up the players, took everyone to jail...
Witness-Box Characters. Koestler starts with loaded dice. The very qualities that make Thieves in the Night first-rate Jewish special pleading make it also unsatisfying as fiction. Every character is part of a carefully arranged witness-box cast, and the arrangement is too deliberate ly designed to give both sides of the story. It is almost as if the author didn't quite trust his Zionist approach to stand on its own feet...
...near South Side-with grasping fingers and a cunning brain, for almost half a century. He had started his climb to power early; he was orphaned and a newsboy at twelve, two years before the Great Fire. When he was 24 he owned a saloon (with a dice game upstairs) and was edging into Democratic politics...
...could just as well say the fall of dice is governed by astrology, or the weather, or by blowing one's breath on the dice. I personally have had good results by saying, "Little Joe, the man that picks the cotton! Pick all that cotton, Joe!" However, I take the straight 2-to-1bet against...