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Magruder served on the Federal bench--the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston--for 20 years after his appointment by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. He ruled on a number of important issues, including the appeal of the denaturalization of gambler Frank Costello...
...pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer a promise to participate in the Washington protests and thus...
...arrive. These theatres offer the key to Sack's flexibility. They are all relatively small--the smallest seats only 600--and therefore can be made available profitably for movies with a more limited appeal. They also allow Sack to shuffle movies with the ease of a river-boat gambler--large Tremont Street attractions occasionally find themselves in a Cheri for their final days...
Riverboat Gambler...
...appearance of a Harvard man to honor Yale players at a victory dinner is not without precedent. In 1960 Harvard quarterback Charley Ravenel, "the riverboat gambler," softened Eli hearts with his talk...