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...owners had some reason for thankfulness anyhow. Because he kept picking up his winnings instead of letting them ride, the lucky gambler himself (who refused to tell anyone who he was) walked out with only $750. If he had left his winnings on the table he could have run his original $2 into at least $289,406,976-unless, of course, he had left his burgeoning fortune down for the 29th throw...
Adam and Evalyn (Rank; Universal-International) is a British movie cut to an old Hollywood pattern-not a very good pattern by the standards of moviemaking on either side of the Atlantic. A dashing young society gambler (Stewart Granger) promises a dying buddy to take his daughter out of an orphanage and give her a home. The girl (Jean Simmons) is an ungainly waif who takes Granger for her father. He finally sets her straight and packs her off to a Swiss finishing school, which returns her to him as a glamorous dish. She consents to marry...
Fingold, who last year bustled an allegedly corrupt police force in Revere, cited examples of police-gambler fixes. A Boston numbers big shot blanket $1,320,000 in the year before he was arrested, Fingold said, even though his 40-man office was across the street from the police station and court...
...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
...room Desert Inn not only boasted a huge pool and a 35-ft. colored fountain, but in deference to gamblers with "kiddies," a king-size doll house. It had a temperamental French chef named Maurice who specialized in things served on flaming swords (said one awed gambler: "The guy gets excited over a steak"). It boasted a $22,000-a-week floor show, with a chorus line rivaling Manhattan's Copa Girls, Ray Noble's orchestra, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and a trio of French tumblers...