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...real loser, whether a gambler, a writer, or both, uses the language of the trade. Here are the key words and phrases used around the track...
Bookmaker--Any gambler who supports his gambling by writing...
Dostoevski, a compulsive gambler, once wrote that he had had an orgasm while losing a large sum of money on a bet. To each...
...questions. Some Mafiosi have large sums in secret bank accounts overseas, most notably in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as nest eggs in case they ever have to flee abroad. Other mobsters keep their escape money in bank safe-deposit boxes or hiding places called "traps." Anthony ("Fat Tony") Salerno, a gambler and loan shark who was indicted last week on charges of running a $10 million-a-year numbers operation in Manhattan, used to keep more than $1 million in small bills packed in shoe boxes stacked from floor to ceiling in a closet of his apartment on West End Avenue...
...children in Paris, and an openly acknowledged mistress. Lady Annabel Birley, and two children in London, he lives a heady cross-Channel version of Captain's Paradise. Sir James Michael Goldsmith, 44, juggles all this and just about everything else with the aplomb of a crack gambler -which he also is. His latest gamble, to become an international press lord...