Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIME has sired some of America's greatest men, but it is probably equally true that from 14 Plympton Street have gone forth some of the country's smallest men. So there is a certain spine-tingling element of chance in this business that should make at least all gambler types attend tonight...
...gushed the Chicago American's TV Critic Janet Kern, "that he has come to be a 'friend' whose weekly visits the whole family eagerly anticipates." Along with this charm, he combines the universal erudition of a Renaissance man with the nerve and cunning of a riverboat gambler and the showmanship of the born actor...
Uniquely among TV quiz shows, Twenty One is shrewdly designed to test the same odd combination of many-sided learning and the gambler's art. Packaged and owned by M.C. Jack Barry and Dan Enright, the show may pop questions in any of 108 categories of information that range across the board of knowledge. Moreover, though the contestant stakes none of his own money at the outset, he risks his winnings every time he chooses to play...
...spreading unhappiness in the process. But until something better comes along, TV finds them indispensable. "I'm not bitter and I'm sure they're as honest as they can be," said one unemployed comic last week. "But it's like the story of the gambler who played the roulette wheel in this little town and kept losing all night, until a fellow came up and said: 'Look, bud, that wheel is fixed.' 'I know,' said the gambler, 'but it's the only wheel in town...
...week. As every wheeler-dealer knows, the great secret of success is knowing when to stop. Had Odie Seagraves ever learned to curb his penchant for just one more deal, he would have been one of the wealthiest men in Texas, worth some $150 million. But as every born gambler knows, the hardest thing in the world is to give up the dice...