Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Furthermore, card playing is harmful to health because it is usually accompanied by heavy smoking and often ends in drinking. Besides, a gambler long over the gaming table is in a nervous state...
...disposition." Last week a heart attack put an end to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays's 73 years of fun and fighting. Among his mourners at a Manhattan funeral parlor were Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, champion of evolution and founder of the Euthanasia Society, Gambler Frank Costello and Showman Billy Rose...
...cutthroat confines of what Weaver likes to call "the high executive level" of radio and TV, there is no certainty that such a gambler can count on being around long enough even to see the last throws of his own dice. But if that was worrying NBC's Weaver last week, he did not show it. He had brought the excitement of the year to the business, forced his competitor CBS into some spectaculars of its own (although that is never admitted), and jarred the advertising men out of their...
That old frog-throated scofflaw, Gambler Frank Costello (né Castiglia), still at large on $50,000 bail after appealing a five-year jail sentence for dodging 1947-49 income taxes, stood in grave danger of having his wings further clipped. Because he refused to testify about his activities in the U.S. before 1925 (when he became a U.S. citizen), a federal district attorney asked a U.S. court to denaturalize Italian-born Costello immediately...
More than two years ago, Ruby McCollum, then 37, wealthy wife of a Negro gambler and one of the richest Negroes in the area, shot to death Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams Jr., 44, of Live Oak. A white Florida state senator-elect. Adams was the most important politician in Suwannee County, and a man whom local bigwigs said "was gonna be governor, sure...