Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state [of the gambler who made 28 straight passes with dice]: "If he had left his winnings on the table he could have run his original $2 into at least $289,406,976" [TIME, June...
...Gambler Frank Erickson, who looks like an aggrieved pig and dresses like an advertising executive, could see his mistakes now. He never should have taken his office out of his hat and moved into a fancy Park Avenue office, complete with an accountant and neatly kept records. He never should have said anything to those Senators down in Washington...
...biggest mistake was made when Arizona's Senator McFarland yelled at him "You do violate the law?" and Erickson blurted "yes" in a startled squeak. Four days later, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan seized all of Erickson's neat records, and the big gambler's financial front man began singing for the D.A. Hogan charged Frank with conspiracy and 59 counts of bookmaking...
...Manhattan's special sessions court this week Gambler Erickson meekly entered a plea of guilty on all counts (maximum penalty on each: $500 fine and one year in jail). But a trial might have been worse. Hogan's men had found that a big chunk of his $100,000-a-year income came from Florida's Colonial Inn, a gambling enterprise he shared with Detroit gamblers, New York Gangsters Meyer Lansky and "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo, Brooklyn's Joe Adonis. Erickson would not want to get those fellows into trouble...
...Jean (The Duenna) Karsavina's libretto, the mustachioed gambler challenges champion frog Dan'l Webster's owner Smiley, then feeds Dan'l up on quail shot while the boys are outside laying their bets for the easy money. Before the contest comes off, the gambler strolls off for a mustache-twirling romance-which provides Composer Foss with an opportunity for some witty, satirical mustache-twirling music. Dan'l loses the contest, but the villain's villainies are found out, and he is brought to frontier justice...