Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farsighted Gamblers. Before Strickland came to town, every cub reporter in New Orleans knew that Sheriff William S. Coci's Jefferson Parish was the place to roll dice on green felt tables and bet on the hushed whirl of the roulette wheel. But no reporter could document the story in depth because the farsighted gamblers had taken the precaution of getting pictures of every newsman in town. When a reporter showed up, sharp-eyed bouncers gave him the thumb...
...Maloney and Joe McLaughlin. A Langley sample: "So the prostitution is out. And now it's no good, and we don't want it anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only way you're going to do any good is cards, high dice. Like I told you all along, cards and book, and then if you get into the pinballs and punchboards, that's all right. That bootleg joint, if it'll-if it will go if you can make anything. That's all right...
...chief characteristic. A sign of the times might be detected in Careers, a new board game put out by Parker Brothers, the Salem, Mass, firm that struck it rich with Monopoly in the '30s. In Careers, as in Monopoly, luck is still presented by dice and the practical world by play money, but each player in Careers decides in advance on his own goal-money, fame, happiness or a combination...
...fashioned reasons for their action. "They say TV coverage is 'disruptive' and the council members will 'ham it up,' " he explains. "I told them their ethics and integrity ought to be a matter for them to work out with themselves. But it was no dice. Now I feel it's my missionary duty to see this thing through." This week the council invited Pressman and representatives of all three networks to a formal session devoted to the admission of radio-TV crews to cover all sessions...
...villainous businessman finally acquired enough vision to contribute his mite to an expanding economy. In the meantime many a reader will wish that Author Schlesinger would allow a remarkable and memorable American to be judged on his own great merits and great faults, without loading the historian's dice in his favor...