Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GAMBLER FRANK COSTELLO has nothing worse than chronic laryngitis now, his doctor testified last week, but in 1933 it was cancer of the vocal cords. Manhattan Specialist Douglas Quick said that 28 X-ray treatments in a three-month period licked the cancer, but left Costello with considerable scar tissue. The scar tissue was just one of the reasons for Costello's laryngitis, the doctor believed. The other: too many cigarettes...
...phenomenal "success story." Phillips discovered that Ward had served nine months in the state penitentiary in 1939 for forgery. And Ward's racing stable, with which he had made a great hit with the local horsy set, was actually owned by Colorado's big-time gambler O. E. ("Smiling Charlie") Stephens, whom Ward had met in the pen. Reporter Phillips turned up another interesting fact: Ward was paying a $500 a month "consultant" fee to Lester Hall, executive vice president of U.S. National Bank, which had made him his biggest loans...
...Government-a matter of at least $130,000 in unpaid income taxes. It looked as if this trouble would be settled without much difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named Frank Nathan and Burt K. Naster set out to help him. Nathan, of Miami Beach, is a gambler, chiseler and influence peddler; Naster, of Hollywood, Fla., is a former Chicago industrialist who once served a prison term as a tax dodger...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...
...last almost as long. For a couple of reels Lotta yearns for the stage before Producer Jessel lets her go on; then he takes her on a tour that dawdles like an actor poring over his scrapbook. Her suitor follows on horseback. First she thinks he is a gambler, then a bandit, before he emerges proudly as a Southern patriot...