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Last week, as New Jersey prepared for its primary, Democratic Boss Frank Hague wore the innocent expression of a gambler with a sure thing. Mr. Hague has come so close to running both parties that he has nearly reduced New Jersey to a one-party State...
Cribbage (played with cards and reckoned on a peg board) was invented by Britain's Sir John Suckling, a 17th-century gambler. He got the idea from an ancient English game called Noddy, mixed the proportions of luck (drawing cards) and skill (playing them) so piquantly that the game appealed to every Englishman's taste, soon became synonymous with a cozy fireside and a little something simmering on the hob. When English colonists went to the U. S., cribbage went along, too, sprouted wherever there were two people, a fireside and a long winter evening...
...That a fur workers' union borrowed $1,750,000 from the late Gambler Arnold Rothstein, hired "Legs" Diamond to do its dirty work...
...dying father by baking pies. Next she started a freighting business, with its profits bought up the war-abandoned ranches of the Santa Cruz Valley, dirt cheap. One admirer, tall, lean Peter Muncie, she sent to Kentucky for a herd of cattle to stock her ranches. The other, Gambler Jefferson Carteret, a Southern aristocrat with drooping eyelids and ornate manners, went off prospecting, found a gold mine. By Appomattox Phoebe had the mine, the ranches, the cattle, her prosperous freighting business, an infant son. "Him 'n' Arizony is babies together," she said. "You 'n' me, Peter...
...from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...