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...vote of 6 to 2, the Court had blocked the Government's long campaign to send Gambler Costello, 73, back to his native Italy. It was six years ago that Costello was stripped of his citizenship on the grounds that he had obtained naturalization through fraud, that he had listed his occupation as real estate when it really was gambling and bootlegging. After that, the Justice Department moved to deport Costello on the theory that two previous convictions for income tax evasion made him vulnerable to a statute that permits the ouster of an alien found guilty...
Before the Kid's showdown with Lancey, a veteran gambler warns him: "don' mess 'around with The Man jest yit kid. Jest learn a little mo' poker. Right now, Lancey'd take skin and leave you dried out like a sucked orange in the sun, juice all gone." Ready or not, the Kid won't back out, and he and Lancey play in a plush St. Louis hotel room. "Once you go in," the Shooter says, "you can't quite. Two of you go in and only one of you can come out, 'cause there ain't room...
WHILE he was chairman of Wall Street's powerful First Boston Corp., lanky George D. Woods was an orthodox banker by day and a gambler in his off hours. Woods did his gambling as a Broadway angel, bankrolled a few flops but also a list of such long-runs as Sailor, Beware! and Dead End. As World Bank president, Woods, 62, is now serving as angel for more universal enterprises. Under Eugene Black, the bank prospered by making hard loans for productive public works. When he succeeded his longtime friend last year, Woods recognized that the bank had undergone...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A professional gambler teams up with a Texas millionaire in a scientific attempt to break the bank at a Las Vegas casino. Jack Kelly and Pat Hingle guest-star. Color...
...with a pocketful of money be jailed as a vagrant? Confessed Mississippi Gambler John L. Fonte could claim no legitimate occupation, so even though he was carrying $771, he was convicted for "statutory vagrancy" under an old Tennessee law originally intended to force the idle to work at "some honest calling." Upholding Fonte's conviction, the state's supreme court ruled that "the mere possession of money is insufficient defense" and found that the ancient statute, now "directed almost exclusively at the prevention of crime," can apparently be used against some well-to-do idlers...