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John Doe, 47, a tenement-dwelling Midwesterner in hock to the corner delicatessen, pursues solvency at the horse parlor and the poker table. His purpose is exemplary: he wants to move his seven-year-old son, dying of epilepsy, to a desert climate. A soft-hearted stud dealer pledges the necessary pot but dies before delivering. Doe next touches a baker's doughy widow, to whom he has previously applied for favors of another order; she indignantly draws the line at moneylending. Eventually, Doe's own wife stakes him, unsolicited. And off he flies with Junior, into...
...servicemen overseas, stores have been doing a brisk business in gifts ranging from toilet kits to packages of fruit, cheese and nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...
...Hurrah for Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall's article on the horrible reporting of the Viet Nam war [Oct. 21]. The A.P. reports we get here are disgraceful and disgusting, to say the very best! A red-hot poker for all but one or two Viet Nam war reporters...
Colonel Briggs-who was known to the troops as "Old Poker Face" during the war-is the choice of Republican Governor John Chafee and the G.O.P. state central committee, and is thus the strong favorite to win the Republican primary next month. Confident of this, the colonel last week officially opened the campaign with all sights trained on Claiborne Pell and November...
...Except for a few minor factual slips (my poker really hasn't been that good for many years!), I thought that TIME'S cover story [July 22] was a very good one and gave an accurate resume of the airline picture. I was impressed by the amount of time and effort that I observed going into its preparation. While I trust that TIME will be able to hold to higher standards in the future, it was fun to be on your cover...