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...football, the attempted bribery of two of the Giants' players (TIME, Dec. 23) was a different matter. The newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
...entire Pacific Coast. That's 108 calls per half-hour period. The current report shows 35% average sets in use. That means less than 40 respondents giving the Pacific Coast pace for half-hour listening! ... On that small a sample, Mr. Hooper can get odds from any professional gambler that ... he will eventually hit a night when not one single respondent is listening to Fibber & Molly or Bob Hope...
...Fullback Merle Hapes was ruled out of the game while cops investigated a Broadway gambler. The gambler had tried to bribe Hapes and a fellow Giant to throw the game...
King Killer. The man who had helped to topple King Cotton was a speculator, one of the biggest in the U.S., Thomas Jordan of New Orleans. A gambler first and always, he is said to have started with $300 in 1936, built it up by speculation in cotton futures into a paper empire worth millions...
...White Tie and Tails (Universal-International) takes place in the never-never land of romantic farce. It is an agile, simpleminded frolic about a butler, an heiress and a gambler. Dan Duryea, whose pinched, deep-frozen face has heretofore made him particularly suited to playing down-at-heel mugs, is oddly cast as a typically uppity butler...