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Despite its Technicolor parade of sun-burned, gaudily-dressed couples, Mississippi Gambler remains a drab romance. Tyrone Power's discreet gambling and puritan manner would put a benevolent granny to shame, while Piper Laurie's reception of his passion stirs some deep psychological trauma--if you care to interpolate from an occasional tear runs Without damage down her lovely face...
Black Sheep. In Manhattan, Solomon Bauman, 73, picked up on a pickpocket charge, pleaded with the court not to tell his sister: "It would kill her. She thinks I'm a gambler...
...federal parole board in Washington denied parole requests from Gambler Frank Costello, in prison in Milan, Mich, serving 18 months for contempt of Congress, and Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders, serving five years at Terre Haute...
...rich, sweet, 17, and belongs to the want-to-be-lost generation. She is engaged to a handsome home-town boy (Rivermark, La.) who sells insurance and is as safe and sane as the Fourth of July without firecrackers. When he introduces her to a poetry-quoting New Orleans gambler, Randy Blane, Rowdy feels the "dark downbeat witchery" of the man melting her engagement ring...
That very night, Gambler Randy shows up outside Rowdy's window with a bullet wound in his upper arm and a plea of "Hide me" on his lips. A Congressman's son has been killed in a shooting brawl, and Randy is sure he will be tagged with the rap. Rowdy not only hides him, she takes charge of his getaway by car and speedboat...