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Died. George Washington Earp, 96, former cowboy and last of "the Fighting Earps;" in a Joplin, Mo. nursing home. First cousin to gunman, gambler and sometime cop Wyatt now sanctified by TV, George Earp rose above his Dodge City relatives to become a U.S. Marshal and Internal Revenue agent...
...Knights. Frederick ("Fritz") Loewe is Viennese, emotional, a flamboyant gambler who thinks the second biggest thrill on earth is to drop $30,000 in a single night at the casino tables, then tell about it for weeks. Alan Jay Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about...
...Witness (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Re-enactment of the case of Charles Becker, the New York City police lieutenant electrocuted in 1915 for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. As played by Nehemiah Persoff, Becker will be put on the griddle by real lawyers in a simulated investigation...
...Harvard, he has earned the title of Charlie the Gambler. "They call it a gamble," he said of his courageous fourth-down calls, "but anything's a gamble that's less than 100 per cent certain." He admitted, however, "Maybe my evaluation of risk is different from other people...
...oontz (gambler's gab)-the game of craps; to crowd, push or force