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...Toynbee views history in terms of religion, or the Marxists in terms of class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap...
Forbes again demonstrated his excellent taste with two American folk songs arranged by John Jacob Niles and J. Colman and an Irish ballad done by the late Archibald Davidson. Emily Romney sang The Gambler's Wife with a freedom that never became hackneyed...
...gambler did not show up as frequently this year," said Cotton, speaking of the boy who applies on a long shot. "If the average student has not already become discouraged by himself, his counselor will...
...Open Air Campaigners was a 19th century remittance man named Ned Field, exiled from England for unspecified wrongdoing, who felt that he had been cured of cancer in answer to prayer. The group's present director, Reginald E. Werry, 42, was a thief, a drunk and a professional gambler, prospecting for gold in his native Australia when World War II broke out. He decided to join up to get a free trip somewhere, drove to the recruiting station in a stolen car. During four years as a war prisoner in Germany, his light-fingered ways earned him the post...
William Brice is the 39-year-old son of the famed comedienne Fanny Brice (and of her second husband, Gambler Nick Arnstein); Billy's youth was spent with the great figures of show business. He remembers Fanny's house guests on Fire Island gathering at the ferry dock to meet Comedian Lou Holtz, singing...