Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fritchey's diversionary attack concerned the Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil...
...Treasury agents did much of the investigating, but the FBI arrested both Checkers and Flip Flop, and an FBI man was a Government witness at their trial...
Only a few weeks before its smash opening, the festival had looked like a spectacular flop. Before a single ticket had been sold, the committee was more than $100,000 in debt for the experimental tent theater. Production costs soared to $220,000. Promotor Tom Patterson, the Stratford magazine editor who first thought of the festival, had been able to collect only $40,000 from local contributors...
...second half of Call Me Lucky is chiefly concerned with the golf Bing has played, the deer he has hunted, the trouble he has matching slacks and sport coats because he is colorblind, and the curious immunity he experiences, when facing an audience, to what the trade calls "flop sweat...
...Kansas track team. A year ago his coach decided that Santee's best chance in the Olympics was at a distance: 5,000 meters, where the competition for places on the team was not so tough. Wes made the grade in the U.S. trials but was a flop in Finland, where his slow time failed even to qualify him for the final. Dogged Wes came home and decided to be a miler...