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Simon quickly expanded his money-making talents from dice. Working after school, he bought bags, towels and tissues from a paper manufacturer and sold them to San Francisco stores. At 16, in his most ambitious flyer, he put up money to lease a vaudeville theater, had broken even on the venture and was on his way to a profit when his father persuaded him to pull out of show business. He put his money in the stock market, gradually worked up from penny stocks to A.T. & T. He spent six weeks at the University of California at Berkeley before balking...
...suffled out of the second balcony, he stopped to watch a crap game that had started in a dark corner, by the men's urinal. He pondered for a moment, and grunted, "Loaded dice." That seemed to be the concensus...
...where their beards and unkempt heads of hair frightened the pigeons. In the Cotswolds, hunting horns sounded over green hills as the fox fled before hounds and huntsmen. And in London, which now rivals Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world, players were five deep at the dice and roulette tables...
...born in Spain, the daughter of an Andalusian gypsy and a Greek naval officer. At 13, she ran away from an orphanage to dance in the cabarets. At 14, she married an Italian who abandoned her in Monte Carlo after losing the key to her bedroom in a dice game. At 18, she was the mistress of a Russian prince and two years later made it to Paris, where she became a Spanish dancer in a four-star restaurant in the Palais Royal. Sighed one admirer: "All the Orient was in her hips...
...Rockefeller. The government's Gambling Control Section trains and licenses the croupiers, sends inspectors to watch all tables and settle all arguments-usually in favor of the customer. Casinos are prohibited from advertising, serving liquor or accepting bets beyond certain limits. The top is $100 per roll for dice, $50 for a hand of blackjack and $20 on a roulette number...