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Gaudiest of all the murders was that of Albert Testa, a midget-model (4 ft. 6 in.) burglar, counterfeiter and gambler, who was shot twice and dumped into a West Side alley. Testa was a friend of the late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears...
...rack by rack, the young challenger draws steadily ahead, grows steadily more arrogant. After 25 hours, playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows. "I own it. I'm the best!" On the sidelines a shrewd gambler (George C. Scott) smiles thinly and murmurs to the dazed old king: "Stay with this kid. He's a loser...
...first big game will surely bring sweat to any palm that has ever touched a cuestick. Then, too, Newman is better than usual; Gleason, as the slit-mouthed, beady-eyed Minnesota Fats, darts among the shabby little pool sharks like an improbably agile and natty whale; and Gambler Scott looks as though he could sell hot-air heat to the devil...
...Venice. Her opponent suggested that she play again, this time putting up all the drawings by her husband that she had in her house. She played and lost-and then lost again, until not only the drawings but also the house were gone. The drawings, held cheap as gambler's loot, passed from hand to hand until Art Dealer Parsons, a little more than a century later, palmed them off to the Victoria and Albert...
...Full Corn. Many obscure masthead adages survive only out of deference to long-dead founders. Until recently, the Denver Post peppered the papers with a passel of Founder-Gambler Frederick Bonfils' hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible...