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...with flying. The Air Force has belatedly become the focus of his life: with nine MIG kills to his credit, he is one of the three top U.S. jet aces.-At 25, Jim Low thousht of himself as a failure and a misfit. He had tried being a gambler, but could get nowhere with cards, dice or horses. Raised in Sausalito, a California town across the bay entrance from San Francisco, he had served three wartime years in the Navy as a radarman ("a long, dull tour of duty, mostly with convoys"), had then gone to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Dad's Last MIG | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Albert Jordan, his former chauffeur, testified that he frequently drove Kenny to the home of a Jersey gangster and gambler named Charlie Yanowski, who was later stabbed to death with an ice pick. Kenny, it developed, also had a deep interest in the waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting last March with moonfaced, heavy-handed Anthony Strollo-prisonbound Joe Adonis' successor in the Jersey rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Onetime Bigtime Gambler Frank Erickson, the bookies' bookie, released after serving 16 months for making book in Manhattan, went across the river and into New Jersey state prison to start a 12-to 14-month sentence for masterminding Bergen County gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...bill is somewhat saved by the co-feature, "The Gambler and the Lady," in which Dane Clark turns in a midget Humphrey Bogart performance. A few original twists in the plot and several good character portrayals help lift this picture from the second feature category...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Pony Soldier | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Starr, "who can ride and shoot like a man." When men are not falling dead in front of Belle's six-shooters, they are swooning at her feet. She is pursued by Outlaw Bob Dalton (Scott Brady), a lesser outlaw named Mac (Forrest Tucker) and a suave professional gambler (George Brent). Belle so inflames these various characters that they get to uttering such phrases to each other as: "No man takes a woman away from me and lives." During all this, Belle, dressed in tight black spangles, manages to find time to sing such songs as The Gilded Lily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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