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Even in Dr. Kountz's enthusiastic estimation, hormones do not suffice in themselves. He cites a depressed man in his 70s. "On hormones, he started coming around, but something was still bothering him. We found out that he was an inveterate gambler. I got him a job with a stock and bond company, and it made him a young man again. In four years he made $200,000. Now he's 93 and retired in Florida. He says his biggest regret is that he didn't grow old sooner...
...with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph, "that the murder is gang war with the lid off . . . The razor and knuckle-duster gangs have turned to firearms." The Daily Sketch wondered: "Should the police now be armed?" Few London crime reporters could resist comparing their city to Chicago...
Keeping a date with the law, Manhattan Gambler Frank Costello, 65, turned himself over to a U.S. marshal to start serving a five-year stretch for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes, was sent off to a detention jail to await his denaturalization trial next month...
...Girl Gambler. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Actor John Newland made the mistake of marrying two women at the same time and ended in the electric chair. On Playwrights '56, Actor Larry Blyden won $74.000 on a quiz show and then spent an exhausting 60 minutes learning that it would not buy happiness. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Singer Ethel Merman was tearily dramatic as a girl who could not stop gambling-particularly with her fiance's money. Vaughn Taylor played her sad-sack lover and, at the play's end, viewers may have felt that his troubles...
...country bumpkin who stands 6 ft. 7¾ in., weighs 285 Ibs., and serves his opponents a punch that would scarcely be too stiff for a six-year-old's birthday party. Like Carnera, El Toro (touchingly portrayed by Wrestler Mike Lane) falls among thieves. A well-known gambler and fixologist named Nick Benko (played good and heavy by Rod Steiger) buys up his contract and starts to fatten the Bull for the kill...