Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...associates had put $400,000 into escrow to buy out Reliance's owner Sol Friedman. But Friedman insisted on $580,000. Zivian had to raise the additional $180,000 or lose the $400,000. Zivian raised part of the balance from Moe Dalitz, a Cleveland gambler...
Although the huge, government-owned casino at fashionable Mar del Plata is the world's largest, it is just as vulnerable as any other gambling house to that once-in-a-million bogeyman, the little gambler with a system that really works. Last week Mar del Plata had to call in the police to help them get rid of a horrifying 30 steady customers, who seemed to have found the dread formula for winning...
...trouble began four years ago when certain small-time gambler, identified only as Senor Delgado, took to studying the whims and behavior of roulette wheels in the small casino at nearby Necochea. Recording several thousand consecutive turns of a wheel, he found that eight or nine numbers seemed to turn up more frequently than the others. By playing a pattern of the high-frequency numbers and rechecking his computations, he began to win modestly but consistently...
...Gambler Frank Erickson, 56, serving two years in jail on bookmaking charges (TIME, July 3), got a bill from the U.S. Government for back taxes, interest and penalties between 1937-46. The bill: $2,258,349.91. The Government slapped a lien on three Erickson real-estate corporations, just to make sure that the ex-king of the U.S. bookmakers paid...
Pearson countered with four California Congressmen, who said that Howser's reputation had been poor in 1948. Pearson's most telling evidence: a deposition from the witness who said he had carried the bribe from a gambler direct to Howser. The jury's unanimous verdict: Howser had not been libeled. Pearson was the winner in his ninth libel suit...