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...CINCINNATI KID by Richard Jessup. 154 pages. Little, Brown...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...
...Jessup's real achievements is the sense he gives of the fraternity among gambling men: they may be hustlers when they are playing with amateurs, but they are knights to one another...
...Saturday, February 15 DO YOU KNOW? (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). The study of archaeology, based on two books by Ronald Jessup and Dorothy and Joseph Samachson. CHALLENGE GOLF (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Arnold Palmer and Gary Player challenge Tony Lema and Phil Rogers at the Desert Inn Country Club in Las Vegas. Color. THE BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). For his second special this season, Bing has recruited Wife Kathryn, Singers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Rosemary Clooney, and Comedian Bob Hope...
...Jessup's writing is so hypnotic that one can easily overlook the time-worn plot...