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Although the Harvard agent denied that Boston's most powerful lottery baron had anything to do with the pool, it was learned conclusively that the gambler, a witness in the "Beauo" Breen murder case, had agreed to back the enterprise...
...time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said, and was two years ago reported living quietly in Prince Rupert...
...sister (Barbara O'Neil) is in love. When, dissatisfied with the way she runs his household, he calls in the sister to assist her, Frou Frou is so broken-hearted that she runs away. Naturally, she does not run away alone; naturally, her escort is an irresponsible young gambler (Robert Young). Result of this situation is the inevitable duel. Result of the duel is Miss Rainer's best burst of blubbering since the one which got her her first Oscar in The Great Ziegfeld. Overdressed and antiquated, The Toy Wife redeems some of its defects by a conclusion...
...gambler, Company started in 1847. Very good name; is making a small amount of money at present. Assets over $150,000 but the owner 63 years old has lent the company money and wants it back. If you can invest three or four thousand and pay him back out of incresaed profits (get that--pay him back your money) the company is yours in time. If you can't you are probably out your investment and job too. (That's logical...
...jail elusive Jimmy Hines, it may be hard to keep New York Republicans from drafting Dewey for Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well as Old may be glad to consider him for President...