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...southern Indiana university and this year moved up into the National Collegiate Athletic Association's prestigious Division I. Evansville hired big-time Coach Bobby Watson from Oral Roberts University, recruited some hot-shooting freshmen and revived an old mascot: a cartoon riverboat gambler holding a winning poker hand of four aces. In spite of a record of one win and three losses, spirits were high as the team boarded a chartered DC-3 for the 70-min. hop to Nashville and a game against Middle Tennessee State University...
...Fast's book ends differently. In The Immigrants Lavette is not ultimately consumed by the system through which he rises. For Lavette business is a game that attracts him as poker seduces a compulsive gambler, but Lavette never forgets that he is just the unmannered, uneducated son of an immigrant fisherman. The Depression is therefore a kind of blessing for Lavette, because it stops the game. Instead of jumping out of the window of his office to splatter on the streets of San Francisco when stock prices begin to plummet, Lavette, after a stint as a bum, leaves his business...
...boiled and shy and poker-faced to make a pass...
Like father, like son-usually, perhaps, but not in the Hunt family. The late Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, who parlayed a winning poker hand into a pyramid of oil wells, was eccentric even for a self-made billionaire. Before he died in November 1974, Hunt became a legend for his backing of ultra-right-wing causes, his penny-pinching (he often carried his lunch in a brown paper bag) and his health faddism (he used to crawl around his Dallas mansion on all fours for exercise). The youngest of his five sons, Ray Hunt, 34, is quiet almost to the point...
...dozen major annual U.S. trading conventions, the casual aficionado can wander down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more people are negotiated during all-night poker games. "When the hobby started, it was all trading," says Frank Nagy, a 54-year-old Detroit mechanic who in 40 years of collecting has amassed over a million cards. "Now the only way to get the old stuff...