Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million televiewers who saw him conquer an adman's dream of Everest, Dick McCutchen proved a perfect dish. Shaken well, he had the drawling deference of a vintage Jimmy Stewart, the nerve of a riverboat gambler, and the Montezuman morale of a Marine. Not the least, he had an astronomical gastronomical education, inherited from his globetrotting naval-officer father, who has spent years accumulating exotic recipes...
...Joan Crawford, the widow of a gambler, has a soul as rubbery as Chandler's pectorals, though not so much in evidence. "Ben was older than I was," she explains, "and rich ... I didn't know very much when I met him, but what I knew I knew well." Jeff has a confession to make too. "I don't hate women," he mutters. "I just hate the way they are." "I wish I could afford you," murmurs Joan. "Save your pennies," he encourages...
...small-towner exploits his brother's boxing talents, and by overmatching him, causes him to be so gravely injured that he can never fight again. The double bromide: ambition is a drug on the market, but no cure in itself for those who are sick for success. The Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), was a character study of a megalomaniac, painted in overripe colors. The gambler (Jack Carson), at the nadir of his career (he is broke), risks whatever is dear...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Gambler, starring Jack Carson...
Throughout the world, threadbare gamblers with avid eyes have dreamed of becoming "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo." But the man who came nearest to breaking the bank at Monte Carlo last month was no true gambler at all; he was the man who owned...