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...Jackpot. Ed Crump holds no public or political office, but his Shelby County Democratic Organization is probably the smoothest, most efficient political mechanism in the U.S. In his 37 years of benign if iron despotism, he has given Memphis citizens almost everything but the right to vote for a candidate of their own choosing -a luxury he firmly believes that few but the maladjusted miss anyhow...
...Small Copper Box. Snow and his brother, Donald, headed for the island last week with a shovel and an electronics device like a mine detector, used in locating metals. Five times they dug down, found buried hulks. Their sixth excavation hit the jackpot: a small, encrusted copper box. It was full of tarnished old coins minted in Peru, Mexico, Portugal, France and Spain...
Three-Year Splurge. Greek-born Willie Helis, now 58, arrived in the U.S. 41 years ago with $22 in his jeans. He learned to sleep with a diamond-tipped oil drill locked around his neck, and eventually hit the jackpot. He now owns more oil wells than he has time to count, has spent up to $3,800 on a single evening's fling, smokes two dozen $1.50 cigars daily...
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...saratoga chips of his French Quarter parties, La Farge would tell himself over & over, "Well, Oliver, you certainly have nice friends." But for all the call of the wild Southwest and the high-jinks of Mardi-Gras, the Groton Boy was still alive. When Laughing Boy hit the jackpot, Oliver bee-lined it for a Park Avenue apartment and all the trimmings...