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...laughed and laughed. An Aussie syndicate had learned how to beat the one-armed bandits? Impossible. Even when confronted with Australian press reports that the group had coined $225,000 in slot-machine jack pots before they were banned for life from most of New South Wales's gam bling clubs, Nevada's big wheels insisted "it could never happen here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: How to Beat the Bandits | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...phrase that prods is ticky tacky. This is the essence of the lyric, and it has multiplied virally all over the country. A Harvard professor at a recent conference struck a blow at "students made out of ticky tacky." Actress Rita Gam used the words ticky tacky at least 100 times at a Manhattan dinner party last week. A realty firm in Berkeley has a blurb claiming that it sells "distinguished houses, not ticky tacky." After hearing the song, a professor at the University of Miami said: "I've been lecturing my classes about middleclass conformity for a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singing: Tacky into the Wind | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Night People, the story of counterintelligence at work in East Berlin, with Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford and Rita Gam. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Divorced. By Rita Gam, 34, occasional cinemactress (The Thief): Thomas Guinzburg, 36, touchy Viking Press executive, who, according to Rita, started all their trouble when he gave up smoking; after nearly seven years of marriage, two children; in Juárez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 8, 1963 | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

...Morgan Sterne) is a coward who betrayed his revolutionary comrades to torture and death. One of the women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed her. The other is a rich woman (Rita Gam) who drowned her baby and inspired her nice old husband to blow his brains out. Briskly they confess their sins, warily they begin to discover what manner of hell they are in. The coward longs to be saved, the lesbian prefers to be damned, the rich woman wants to be distracted. Each involves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hell Is a Hotel | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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