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When his business manager told him that racing cost him $450,000 to operate last year, Willie could afford to ask, and did: "So what?" Yet he never bets more than a piddling amount on a race. Not that he isn't a gambler. When he bought $125,000 worth of horses from General Motorsman Henry Knight this year, he offered to flip a coin, double or nothing. Knight hesitated for a moment, then settled for a straight sale...
...audacious-but it was the calm audacity of a gambler who bets his stack on a four-ace hand. The main striking force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-so much greater than any other of the world's fleets that such comparisons have become meaningless-steamed undetected, through filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...
White on Zaslavsky: "He is, I believe, the same man who attacked [Wendell Willkie] last January as a 'Political gambler' who was 'playing a peculiar political game' because he discussed the situation of the Baltic states and Poland...
Predicting an imminent "scandal that would stink to high heaven," he declared: "Vadal Peterson, Utah University coach, knocked down a gambler who came to his room in New York last spring and asked how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth in the N.C.A.A. finals. . . .* Professional gamblers already have caused two boys to throw basketball games...
...Said Coach Peterson last week, denying that he had struck the gambler: "I shut the door in his face, and that dosed the incident...