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...kind eccentric, a penny pincher who brought his lunch to work in a brown paper bag, a health faddist who crawled on all fours as a form of exercise, a gambler who sometimes had $50,000 riding on a single afternoon's sports events. Says Bunker of his father: "We never disagreed on anything much...
...company was clearly headed for disaster in 1968, when Engineer "T" Wilson succeeded Lawyer William Allen as president. Allen had been renowned as an aerospace gambler because of his high-stake bets on the development of Boeing's full line of first-generation passenger jets, the 707, 727, 737 and 747.* Wilson decided that only quick and painful surgery would save the company. He slashed the number of Seattle-area employees from 105,000 to a low of 38,000, shuffled 1,800 members of the top-heavy corporate staff of 2,000 out to field offices and dispersed...
...Many a gambler in the gaudy casinos of Las Vegas has staked the last of his cash on a "life or death" bet. But literally? That seems to have been the case at the city's Sunrise Hospital last week, where some overnight nurses and aides apparently placed bets on when terminally ill patients in their ten-bed intensive care unit would die. According to the Las Vegas newspapers, one nurse, known as "Death's Angel," pulled plugs on the life support systems of as many as six patients. Rather than protest her actions, some co-workers apparently...
...threatened with contempt of court, Godfrey agreed to begin paying off his fine at a rate of at least $50 a month during most of the year and $100 a month in the summers, when his bicycle business booms. Godfrey's case followed a similar action against Gambler Alvin Kotz, who in January became the first person in Washington, and perhaps in the entire country, ever convicted of willful failure to pay a criminal fine...
When he and Syrie divorced in 1929, Maugham had already established residence on the Riviera with his secretary-lover. Gerald Haxton was a sociable charmer, but he was also unscrupulous, a gambler and a drunk. "Their relationship," writes Morgan, "had a dark, unpleasant side in which the roles of master and servant were interchanged and each tried to make the other suffer." When Haxton died in 1944, his place was taken by Alan Searle, a lower-keyed companion who enjoyed reading muscle magazines...