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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Uston resigned as a $42,500-a-year senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange four years ago to become a professional blackjack player. He is good. Too good for the casinos to handle. Uston is known as a "counter," because he can keep track of the cards so well that he can determine if those remaining will tip the odds in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-21 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Presley vocals. However, the singing by Ronnie McDowell is gilt-edge counterfeit, Elvis' sound carefully shaped and reduplicated by Felton Jarvis, Presley's own producer at RCA. There is also a starring performance that is quite literally phenomenal. Kurt Russell, a former minor-league baseball player who has done most of his acting on TV and in obscure Disney features, does not attempt an Elvis impersonation, although he moves with gymnastic ease and I curves his lip well. Russell plunges deeply into Presley's psyche, bringing all the talent and all the obsession right to the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Rocking in Store | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Quaker line-up followed Edwards' example by taking five of the remaining eight matches. Only number four player George Bell and seventh and eight men John Fishwick and John Heller managed victories for the Crimson...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Penn Racquetmen Dump Crimson, 6-3 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Number one player Mike Desaulniers, who has been bothered of late by a sore foot, romped to a 15-11, 15-8, 15-10 win over Midshipman Jeff Carlson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Submarine Middies, 9-0 | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Indeed, there is hardly a player on Fordham who could have made the Columbia team much less break into the starting line-up. Penders himself admits that his starting line-up consists of "five guys who play like they've got sprained ankles...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lion and the Thorn | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

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