Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi. "A master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension," said a Western ambassador. In a face softened by comfortable living, his courtly smile was matched by the appraising eye of a riverboat gambler. Once, when Khrushchev & Co. were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight I am the Soviet government...
...they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed in doubletalk ("Did you put the bird in the creen?") to keep their gags fresh for the bystanders who would later form their audience...
...begun to rally. Turkey, threatened only last fall by Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, is all the way for Dulles. In Bonn, a West German Cabinet minister, while urging more energetic U.S. leadership, added thanks for America's Dulles: "We would rather have a purposeful man than a gambler. The stakes are too great. Dulles is a sober man. He would never go to Munich, as Chamberlain...
...pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution...
Died. General Napoleon Zervas, 66, swart, barrel-chested Greek soldier of fortune, reactionary politico, onetime (1950-51) Minister of Public Works and Merchant Marine, who redeemed his prewar years as a conniver, gambler and opportunistic plotter with a skillful guerrilla war during the German occupation of Greece (as head of EDES-National Democratic Army), for which he received Britain's Order of the British Empire, later was credited with rounding up 17,000 Communists in Greece's postwar civil strife; of a heart ailment; in Athens, where his elder brother, Merchant Alex Zervas, collapsed and died after seeing...