Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table man chanted: "Here he goes for line bets . . . Pay the line . . . Shooting ten, ten's the point . . . No roll, no roll." One of the bettors crowding around the Capri Club dice table was a tall, dark-haired man named Donald Loughnane, who was in the midst of a three-month tour of the illegal gambling joints and after-hours drinking places in and around Omaha, Neb. But Loughnane was no playboy. He was a reporter-announcer for Omaha's station KOWH, and his method of reporting seemed straight out of Dick Tracy: hidden in his wristwatch...
...recorded show called Omaha After Dark, Loughnane and Station Manager Todd Storz aired some of the gleanings of the remarkable wristwatch, brought to listeners the actual click of illegal dice, the clink of ice in illegal highballs, and the voices of illegal nightclub owners and employees. One waitress was heard to reassure Loughnane that her place had not been raided in more than a year; an owner answered a question about gambling by saying: "Sure, downstairs. Just go on down. You know everybody down there...
...Literary Life. In Lorain, Ohio, arrested for gambling, Bookseller Michael Rusine paid a $50 fine, admitted that he let patrons roll dice, double or nothing, for their purchases...
Every day for 25 years Cardano played cards or rolled dice. This did not prevent him from writing 412 different works on a dozen sciences and pseudosciences, and from speculating on such matters as the immortality of the soul and how to forecast the future by a study of warts. ("A woman with a wart upon her left cheek, a little to the left of the dimple, will eventually be poisoned by her husband.") But when the distinguished scholar wrote his Book on Games of Chance, he discussed gambling less as a medical doctor than as one of the most...
...Whip Shot. Cardano knew all about loaded dice and such tricks as the whip shot: "The die is thrown straight with such an impetus and such a number of points exposed above that it is probable that the point which we wish will come uppermost." He knew about soaping a card to make it recognizable to the touch, listed several ways of marking cards and told how nimble-footed partners could signal each other on a loose floor board...