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...members of Gamblers Anonymous confess and reconfess their compulsion at each meeting, starting off each purgative session with the statement: "My name is- -; I am a compulsive gambler." Prayer plays a large part in the rehabilitation process. G.A.'s are guided by the society's Twelve Commandments ("We admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." "We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all"). Some chapters place small newspaper ads on the day of a scheduled meeting, but G.A. does...
...hope of heaven or sustaining faith in God. In the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, there is a parody of the Lord's Prayer built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness ("Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name"). In The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio, the hero narrator decides that "bread is the opium of the people...
Hogan charges that New York City Gambler Joseph Hacken. 41, was the fixer. His partner was David Budin, 28, onetime basketball captain at Brooklyn College and a junior high school physical-education teacher until last fall, when he was arrested and charged with trying to fix a Michigan-Oregon football game. To buy the accused basketball players, many of them products of New York high schools, says Hogan. Gambler Hacken and Teacher Budin supplied spending money, dates and ultimately bribes of $500-$1,000 a game. They even had a farm system to buy freshmen players before they reached...
Madame Mustache. In this unique view of history, it was the gambler's restlessness that helped push America westward, his flamboyant character that gave luster to frontier individualism, and his legerdemain and quick gun that often forced the coming of law and order. Gambling has also produced some of the most colorful characters in American history. There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig (which one has the pea?) and could still outwit the best of them at 70; Elijah Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across...
...zeal, American gamblers have had to bow to only one faction: the reformers. Despite brief flurries of success, reformers have never got far. Jonathan F. Green, "The Reformed Gambler," sparked an antigambling drive in the 19th century and made more money on it than he had on gambling. He was so popular that he often put on three or four shows a night exposing gambling tricks. No one illustrated better what the reformers are up against than a North Carolina gambler named-naturally-Pittsburgh Phil. When the doctor told him that he had only 24 hours to live, Pittsburgh Phil...