Word: gamblers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoke with them briefly, then called union headquarters to tell his daughter Chris that he would be home in 30 minutes. He never got there. Several hours later, Bramlet phoned an official at the Dunes Hotel casino and asked that a $10,000 "personal" payment be made to a gambler. It wasn't, and Bramlet has not been heard from since...
...overcome his resentment at being forever considered an outsider?at Geelong Grammar, at Oxford, in Sydney, on Fleet Street. Up to a point, Murdoch agrees: "New York welcomes newcomers. In England, if one is an outsider there is suspicion." Still other Murdoch-watchers explain that the inveterate gambler is merely playing two-up with bigger stakes these days. Too bloody right, admits Murdoch: "Publishing is a life of constant calculated risks. That's also what gambling...
Your story on gambling held a strange irony for me, since it was just two weeks ago that my father, a compulsive gambler, committed suicide. I was glad to see that your article dealt in some detail with the small minority of gamblers who have the good sense to participate in treatment programs like Gamblers Anonymous, but I was surprised that you chose not to discuss the huge number of compulsive gamblers like my father, who for some reason are unwilling or unable to seek help for themselves. Compulsive gambling is cruel and self-destructive, unless the addict makes...
...quit. Says an old Ladbroke's hand: "We could never understand how a man so clever in business could be so stupid as to sit there all night throwing money away." One friend blamed Sir Hugh's failed marriages for causing a "glandular imbalance" that impaired his gambler's instinct and made him stay far too long at the wheels. He certainly did not learn from his father, who also enjoyed gambling. Says Sir Hugh: "The great difference between my father and me was that he knew when to stop...
Soapy Roles. There are also little pockets of drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...