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...thing backgammon buffs have to watch out for. There is also a new breed of hustler lurking: the backgammon shark. Charming and sociable, sharp-minded and able to drink heavily without impairing their skills, they haunt the fashionable resorts and hope to get into a game with a wealthy pigeon like the notorious European buff who has reputedly dropped $500,000 or so in the past three years at the backgammon board. "You can make $1,000 to $1,500 a week by playing these people," says one hustler who tries to remain anonymous to keep out of trouble with...
...William Buckley's marijuana-was it delivered to his yacht by helicopter or carrier pigeon...
Still, all the Museums and Women short stories permit the author to comment on fleeting issues which attract him, revealing some of himself to us even at these most casual aesthetic moments. When viewed against more consistent earlier collections like The Music School and Pigeon Feathers, this one doesn't fade. In the complexity of the characters whom he deals with here intensely, and the openness of even his plotted stories to all sorts of notions--political, religious and scientific--which are pertinent to the educated audience he addresses, these new stories are as far from those he wrote...
...Rookie-of-the-Year honors. In one poll at season's end, he was runner-up to Bing Crosby as the most popular man in America. Though his batting average* through ten seasons with the Dodgers was a formidable .311, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his daring, pigeon-toed base running. The consummate artful Dodger, his long, dancing leads and false breaks on the base paths worried more than one pitcher into committing a balk or a wild pitch. He also made a specialty of the game's most thrilling play; before he retired from baseball...
...through rallying in the stretch and outgamed ODDS HAVE IT to the wire." Or "BOBS B BEES quickest to begin, moved to the inner rail when clear, increased the margin along the backstretch, began to shorten stride in the final sixteenth and was all out to last over STOOL PIGEON...