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Gambling is continuous on all fronts. Last night in the back room, Weenie Beanie was finishing up a two-day head-to-head gin rummy battle with an unknown card player from the west. Sadly pushing threc hundred-dollar bills into his opponent's pile of green paper, he was heard to remark, "I'm stuck so bad now, I can't stop...
...DANJU GIG by Carolyn Weston. 195 pages. Random House. $4.95. A smart-mouthed Jewish agent and a black movie star play at espionage in a small West African dictatorship. Sample prose: "Again he belched. Lox and gin...
...show. For more than a month, the flamboyant quarterback of the champion New York Jets had most of his fans-and himself to boot-convinced that he was going to quit football. Professional Football Commissioner Pete Rozelle had ordered him to give up his part-ownership of the Manhattan gin mill Bachelors III, and to quit hanging around with the hoods and gamblers who populated the joint. Namath pleaded that he was being made a victim of guilt by association. In a tear-stained press conference last month, he said: "The last thing I want to do is quit...
...most part, the Harvard students live off-campus in the summer--inhabiting apartments scattered over Greater Boston. Some do reside on-campus, but not in the Yard with the "summies." Instead, on-campus Harvard students stay in the Houses, enjoying, in some cases, the "Gin and Tonic Societies" which several Houses sponsor to satisfy the souls of House members standed in Cambridge during the summer...
BLUEGRASS AND COUNTRY-WESTERN music have long been like gin on the rocks--either you're born with a taste for it, or you get nauseous every time it comes near you. For the majority of people, who fall into the latter group, it has looked like a long dry rock season. With Dylan and The Band leading the industry to Nashville, and groups like The Pentangle and The Incredible String Band spawning a return to acoustical instruments, one had a hard time repressing visions of The Grand Old Opry on WMEX...