Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dickerson also admitted that the Republican state committee had accepted a $25,000 "loan" from one Joseph Bozzo, a friend of Gambler Longie Zwillman, and had kept no records of the cash repayment. What about Willie Moretti's complaint about his $286,000 bribe? Dickerson knew all about it-for Willie had called at Dickerson's home (in company with Joe Adonis and brother Salvatore Moretti) and had cried, "Tell the governor and the attorney general that I don't intend to take this laying down." The governor, Dickerson went on, had been "shocked" to hear...
Manhattan court reporters saw a familiar face: Gambler Frank Costello, returned from Milan, Mich., where he is serving an 18-month stretch for contempt of Congress, to face a federal charge of evading $73,000 in income taxes. From Costello, prison-pale and some 30 Ibs. lighter, the reporters heard a familiar croak: "Not guilty...
Died. Nicholas ("Nicky the Greek") Zographos,* 66, famed as the world's greatest professional gambler; of cancer; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jockey-sized Card Ace Zographos, who entertained royalty on his yacht, ran baccarat banks at Cannes in the winter and at Deauville in summer. Win or lose, Zographos played it deadpan. Once, the wife of an automobile tycoon reportedly held his hand while he dropped a small fortune at baccarat. His hand, she remarked, did not tremble. "No," said he, "but I turn somersaults when I go to bed at night...
...greatest problem in the script was apparently to keep the lovers apart long enough to have a movie. Piper Laurie's sense of guilt for her mother's death in childbirth is the shaky scaffolding that holds her un-swerving love for her degenerate brother who hates the gambler. Under her brother's influence, Laurie marries an old friend she does not love, who later turns out to be an embezzler and a wife deserter. A neuroses shedding climax in front of her mother's portrait releases Laurie's guilt, and minutes later she winds up safely abroad a riverboat...
...Mark Fallon, the therapeutic gambler who gives a rapid fire Freudian analysis between kisses to Angelica Durean (Piper Laurie), Tyrone Power is insufferable enough to have even his love exclaim, "you egotistical ass." Having Piper Laurie around is never unpleasant, but if you come to see her act you had better stay at home. Probably the most creditable actress is Julia Adams, whose unrequited love of Fallon has moments of convincing tenderness...