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...difference is, of course, that Ulen builds his superb squads out of normal human beings. He doesn't have names like John Marshall. Wayne Moore, or Jim McLane to conjure with. But Ulen has managed to parlay a Hedberg, a McNamara, a Dillingham, and a flood of sophomores into a team that will probably once again go undefeated until it travels to New Haven in March to meet Kiphuth's frogmen...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...Parlay. In Detroit, after Duane Hunter, n, told how he had run a $30 stake up to $2,805 at the horse races, the judge ordered him to sink all his winnings in U.S. defense bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...this tame foundation, Scripter Melville Shavelson attempts to build a wild farce involving missing bank funds, a $60,000 horse-race parlay, and a remarkably uninspired police chase. At regular intervals, Groucho Marx appears to give advice to the lovelorn, but his best bits have no relation to the plot and are palely reminiscent of scenes from earlier Marx Brothers movies. Among its other novelties, Double Dynamite does a reverse on standard Hollywood nepotism: it was produced by 3 3 -year-old Irving Cummings Jr., and directed by his 63-year-old father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...list of entrants in three races. He keeps half the stub, leaves the other half with the management. During the evening's program, Patrick then runs old newsreels of three unidentified races (soon to be replaced by specially shot color films). Any patron who wins the three-horse parlay exchanges his half-stub for the evening's purse (usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Racing on the Screen | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel. "I always made it a practice to spend on Mabel what I got from Jane . . . Don't forget that all these women were trying to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: DOWNFALL OF AN OLD SMOOTHIE | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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