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...last month, a convict, just released from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, told a Dallas cop the hottest rumor from the prison grapevine: a certain party was offering $50,000 for the assassination of a husky, dark-eyed Dallas gambler named Herbert Noble. The stoolie confided: "They say that this man will buy you a new suit of clothes, give you some running money, a gun or dynamite if you want it, and pay you off when...
...requirements. The 38th parallel was in its proper place and so were the present front-line positions, only slightly distorted in the Communists' favor. This week the Reds were still obdurate. But Nam, who had stalked angrily out after an earlier session, was nervously agitated, like a gambler worried by his declining pile of chips...
Federal Judge Benjamin Harrison heard the income-tax evasion case against Gambler Mickey Cohen, sentenced him to five years in jail plus a $10,000 fine, then commented: "You're not as bad as you have been pictured. Perhaps more of us would be gamblers if we'd been so lucky as you have." That conclusion hotted up the Tennessee temper of crime-busting Senator Estes Kefauver: Cohen should have been given a heavier sentence "instead of a pat on the back." From the Billy Sunday Memorial Tabernacle near Warsaw, Ind. came the view of Evangelist Billy Graham...
...casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill, Can't Help Lovin...
...stage and radio, who worked her way up from amateur nights, began her career in the big-time in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. In a series of turbulent romances she married and left 1) a barber named Frank White, 2) Gambler Nicky Arnstein, 3) Showman Billy Rose, meanwhile won new fame with her famed radio characterization, "Baby Snooks...