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...into the corruption of an agency once thought incorruptible. It turned out that FBI administrators had sanctioned big markups in the price of bugging equipment bought by the bureau from a favored contractor, Joseph Tait. Mohr, Callahan, Adams and as many as a dozen other FBI officials regularly played poker with Tait at the Blue Ridge Club near Harpers Ferry...
...rambling place in Bucks County, Pa., shared by three of Jack's children from earlier marriages and four grandchildren. Carloads of theater friends and Kirkland's fellow writers arrived regularly from New York for extended house parties. Amid all the drinking and countryside romping, Gelsey stood out as the poker-faced toddler. "Her seriousness was always a source of kidding," says Brother-in-Law Don Bevan. "But she would never encourage it. She would never give the adults satisfaction. You could never get her to sit on your lap and be cuddly...
...Poker was the steadiest and most spectated game, as the makeshift card-board table and airline deck were both well worn out by the end of the trip. Regulars included Steve "Rich get richer" Baloff, Dick "Go for the flush" Emerson, Rob "What's Steve King's number" Alevizos, Timmy "Nay, I don't want to play this" Clifford, and indentured slave Jim Keyte...
...Games: Poker, backgammon, "Spot a Junkie," "Spot a Looney," and various sing-alongs...
Touches of Class: The color and upkeep of the Penn baseball diamond. The peanut vendor at the doubleheader. NBC television cameras interviewing Mike Wilhite before the Columbia Game. The "Star Spangled Banner" at Baker Field. The "Welcome Harvard Baseball" sign at the Sheraton Airport Inn in Philadelphia. Poker and sandwiches in a hotel room. Curfew...