Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CINCINNATI KID by Richard Jessup. 154 pages. Little, Brown...
...Newman figure is the Cincinnati Kid-still in his 20s but already "a three-river rambling-gambling man," acknowledged among card men from "the East River" (the Ohio) to "the West River" (the Missouri) and all up and down The River from St. Louis to "Noorlins." He sits down with the nationally established five-card champion and tries to replace...
Then he became deeply serious. "I've been waiting for my kid to grow up so that I can bring her to Boston and show her a statue of the first black man to die in the Revolution." His voice broke. "But I don't know whether I want to anymore," he continued, and he wiped his eyes...
...what else is new? The Circle Theatre in Washington, D.C., has run several Humphrey Bogart film festivals in the past five years. There are those of us in this provincial capital who were looking at 'em, kid, long before Our Hero was discovered by the Harvard Yard...
...Kid is broken, not only financially, but spiritually. His woman tries to console him that "for every number one man there is a number two man, and that, because of this, a man cannot retreat from life." But in a world where The Game is everything, he has no choice...