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...little (5 ft. 5 in.) whippet of a man, with the manners of a Southern aristocrat and the look of a riverboat gambler. He never finished college, hated literary talk ("I'm not a literary man, I'm a retired farmer"), often spoke like a country yokel (spattering his conversation with ain'ts and double negatives), and drank like a desperate man. Above all, he was-like his forefathers before him-a Mississippian...
...found stuffed in the trunk of another-his own 1959 Cadillac. He had been strangled with a wire, stabbed, kicked and beaten; he was left lying face up with a penny on his throat and his pockets turned out-standard gangster ceremonial for a stoolie. A fellow gambler, Harry A. Polay, 64, who was scheduled to testify before the Cook County grand jury, presumably to blow the whistle on syndicate gambling, has been missing since March...
They ought to put a 20-lb. weight on him, handicap him like a race horse, to give the rest of us a chance." At 32, Palmer is a hero out of Runyon -a passionate gambler, an electric showman. His desire to win is so strong that finishing second-even though it makes him rich-is only a little less distasteful than finishing last. "The desire is the thing," he says. "You have to keep yourself under control, to believe in yourself...
...identification, and he didn't want to give me his name," Pappenheimer related yesterday. "He said he had been invited by friends in the ." The other professional gambler a student's room; Pappenheimer him and his host...
...whose likeness is preserved in the Oscar statuette. There were some good ones, however, including one quip on the gritty mood of current moviemaking. For the best sup porting actor award, Hope pointed out, "those in contention are actors who played a juvenile delinquent, a Nazi, a gangster, a gambler and a poolroom hustler...