Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesman to handle a million-dollar-a-month casino, because he'd be in trouble by the end of the first day and then it would be the public would get the shaft as he tried to make up his losses. We've learned that the oldtime gambler will run a cleaner place, give the public the best breaks and have fewer hoodlums hanging around, than the amateur...
...Miller has a lovely pair of legs and tries hard to live up to them. Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore, as the collection agents for a prominent gambler, should bring down the house as two of the daintiest thugs who ever did a sentimental buck and wing at the annual picnic of Murder, Inc. The rest of the dances, however, seem overrehearsed-as though the dancers had long since stopped enjoying them. Only the music, some of the very best that Cole Porter ever wrote, is unimpaired; the picture is almost worth seeing just to hear it again...
...Gambler Frank Costello, 62, was sprung from the federal pen in Milan, Mich., after serving 14½ months of his 18-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Although Costello got time cut off his stretch for good behavior, he was no sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows...
Born. To Tyrone Power III, 39, cinemactor (Blood and Sand, The Mississippi Gambler), and his second wife. Cinemactress Linda Christian (The Happy Time) Power, 29: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tarin Stephanie. Weight...
...High Time." Glaring from under his celebrated green eyeshade, Tobey looked like a New England schoolmaster, scolding his knuckleheaded pupils. "Fairy tales! More fairy tales!" he snorted. "Smells unto heaven." "You're playing ducks and drakes with us!" When he wanted to, Tobey could be withering. Gambler Frank Erickson was goaded by Tobey's needling into admitting that he was a bookmaker-an admission that led indirectly to Erickson's jail sentence. And Frank Costello was all but beneath Tobey's frosty contempt. "What have you ever done for your country?" Tobey thundered-and listened contemptuously...