Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show their full import, Researcher Rhine hauled out the mathematics of probability. A subject practicing clairvoyance gets, for example, 7 or 8 hits out of 25 tries. As a gambler knows, the law of averages does not preclude such a score once in a while although the long-run average will be 5 in 25. But suppose the clairvoyant maintains an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries through 40 runs of 25 cards each?1,000 trials in all. The odds against such a performance resulting from chances are better than...
...William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer, was abducted in June 1933. Because he could not identify his captors, Gangster Roger Touhy & mob went free. But Federal agents promptly hung the kidnapping of Gambler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor on them and Illinois sent Touhy & gang to the penitentiary for years & years...
Died. Valerian ("Val") O'Farrell, 58, private detective; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. He worked on such famed Manhattan cases as the shooting of Architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, was counsel for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who was electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. His last job: investigator for Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt who is suing in a Manhattan Supreme Court for return of her daughter, Gloria...
...hour at a roulette wheel in the Casino at Juan-les-Pins, France. Novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim won 200,000 francs ($13,180). Said Gambler Oppenheim: "A very amusing pastime...
...cinema lacks the exciting detail, the intimacy of the book but neither book nor picture will help the police clear up the Rothstein murder. The picture's hero, Murray Golden (Spencer Tracy), might be any screen gambler from Hollywood. The plot, in which a rival underworld character grows jealous of Golden's success, and Golden's wife (Helen Twelvetrees) and mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein...