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Wayne never did jump from the treadmill. He was lifted off by John Ford, who had become a poker-playing buddy. "I had been friendly with Ford for ten years," recalls Wayne, "and I wanted to get outa these quickie westerns, but I was damned if I was gonna climb on a friend to do it. He came to me with the script of Stagecoach and said, 'Who the hell can play the Ringo Kid?' " It was a part that called for a strong, inarticulate frontiersman vengefully seeking his father's killers. "I said there's only one guy: Lloyd...
Fifth, many hands in poker are poor betting propositions and the same is true for many races on the daily card. Thus, the public handicapper fights variables which are beyond his controls and which during the course of a year insure that his selections will not show a profit...
That left Tim, Phoebe, and myself at the cabin Friday night. We sat by the fire after the others left, playing poker with a damp pack of cards Tommy had found, using sugar cubes for chips. Tim drank, which he almost never does, got rosy-checked and high. He said nothing about the night's shooting--and instead talked only about poker, as he slowly cleaned Phoebe...
John F. Hyland Jr. '69 pleaded for the exclusion of Cliffies from Houses. He said, "You have friends in the entryway whom you can play poker with now. "Cliffies play, too," a heckler responded. John continued, "But if Cliffies were there. . . " "You'd play strip poker," an audience member said...
...story that he had vowed to rid Terre Haute of prostitution and gambling. The mayor's firm stand in defense of vice raised a modest cheer from gamblers in the upstairs room at the Club Idaho on Hulman Street, and then they went back to their roulette and poker. A sign on the door read...