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Gambling Goes Legit...
What obsesses Atlantic City, the rest of Jersey, and indeed much of the rest of the nation, is that gambling?an activity that churns out money, creates jobs, resists recessions and does not pollute the air or streams?is going legit...
...reality, one of society's periodic and necessary adjustments of its laws to changing mores and unchanging human nature. Almost by definition, such evolutions solve some problems and create others. It is far too early to wager on whether the U.S. will win or lose as gambling goes legit ? but anyone who hankers to bet on it can surely find a taker...
Back in her scuffling days she did TV ads for soap, mouthwash and men's underwear. That was before Actress Andrea Marcovicci went legit, of course, first with a 2%-year run as lovable Dr. Betsy Chernak in the TV soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and most recently as Woody Allen's morally upright friend in The Front. For all that, Marcovicci has been singing the blues lately-as a chanteuse at Reno Sweeney in Manhattan. "If I stick to singing, I won't go stir crazy waiting for another movie part," she says...
...fact. In the '30s and '40s, she was a flamboyant San Francisco madam, running an opulent Nob Hill house (including a 9-ft. Roman bath) that had a clientele to match (the 1945 United Nations conference was one of her busiest seasons). But in 1947 Sally went legit, opened a restaurant in Sausalito and got interested in politics. After four failed races for city council under the name of Marsha Owen, she resumed her nom de nuit in 1972 and swept to victory; last week her council colleagues elected her mayor. "The people voted for me because...