Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh out of appeals on his five-year prison sentence (plus a $20,000 fine) for evading $28,532 in 1948-49 income taxes, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 64, took a legal gamble, croaked an offer to lam for his native Italy, if the federals would take the heat off him. The Government's answer: quit stalling and get off to the penitentiary...
...Gambler at the Met. Common as it is, tenoritis has rarely infected U.S. tenor Richard Tucker, who pined and paraded about the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one night last week as Don José in Carmen near the end of his finest season yet. A onetime cantor in a New York synagogue, he is one of the top tenors, and some think the best, in the world today. "Caruso, Caruso, that's all you hear!" Met General Manager Rudolf Bing once said. "I have an idea we're going to be proud some...
...join the Met," says Tucker. "When Mr. Bing came here, I was singing for $350 a week. When I went in to sign my contract, I asked for $750 a performance. He just looked at me, then offered me $650. Finally, I asked him if he was a gambler. He never took his eyes off me, nodded yes. So we tossed, and he won. It cost me $2,600 that year. I talked to my wife about it, but she didn't care. She always wants me to take it easy." Today, counting concert performances at $3,000 each...
...duels, the serious blends insensibly with the comic. The countess makes bequests of gems she has pawned, mistakes total strangers for lifetime friends. But in her infrequent lucid moments, the countess teaches young Carmela that the full life requires the taste of a connoisseur and the instincts of a gambler. "Never economize with life," she warns. "It never gives anything back." Carmela suddenly acquires the confidence of her own sexual power and beauty. It shines through to a film director (clearly modeled on Vittorio De Sica) who screen-tests the young beauty at just about the time that...
...Indo-China war, denying that Britain had ever told Dulles it would intervene. British newspapers reflected concern that a revival of "tougher" U.S. diplomacy might now be in store. "A dance of death," cried the London Daily Mail. "Heaven protect us from this edgy gambler," said the Daily Mirror, "and his careless way of making his risky throws known to all the world...