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...Mississippi Gambler (Universal-International). As he cruises along the Mississippi on a pre-Civil War gambling boat, Tyrone Power, a dashing but honest adventurer, has all sorts of remarkable experiences. He encounters a ravishing redhead (Piper Laurie), whom he affectionately calls "pepper pot," but she declines to have anything to do with him because her weakling brother (John Baer) lost an old family heirloom to him during a game of chance. Just to complicate matters more, Piper's brother is hopelessly smitten with brunette Julia Adams, who, in turn, is infatuated with Power...
Mississippi Gambler has plenty of feudin' and fightin' with pistols, swords and fists. The men are brave and handsome, and the women good and beautiful. Evil is punished and right rewarded. With a rambling the script and lackadaisical direction, the picture, like Ol' Man River, just keeps rolling along to its predictable Technicolored happy ending...
...better under pressure than most," says Golfer Lloyd Mangrum, "because I'm a ham at heart. I'm also a gambler at heart, and I'll take a chance rather than play it safe. It's always better to be a winner." Mangrum was talking about golf's hottest current winning streak: five straight tournaments (in Australia and the U.S.) and close to $11,000 in prize money since November...
Looking like the gambler he claims to be-lean, tanned, well-tailored, and sporting a trim mustache-Mangrum has long played in the shadow of the Hogans, Sneads and Nelsons. Seldom winning the big ones, but plugging along at his trade with the gambler's instinct for the law of averages, Mangrum manages to play in more tournaments and win more money than any other touring pro. With winnings, exhibitions and bonuses, he figures that in the past five years he has earned some $300,000 from his golfing talents...
...could mistake this faintly fussy, professorial-looking character for a man of the people. Yet he has written some of the most authentic Americana of his time, and numbers among his friends prizefighters, Chicago gunmen, waitresses, and a gambler who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Full of bubble and bounce, he has the ready grin of the seasoned meeter-of-people. He puts on no airs, and has an immense interest in human beings, young and old, whom he treats with fatherly didacticism ("I should scold you very severely," he told a girl of a few minutes' acquaintance...