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...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
Overland Hole. The two stories and his poem Plain Language from Truthful James, in which Ah Sin the Chinaman beats a table of U.S. poker players at their own game, have found permanent lodging in all the anthologies. Harte himself was astonished at the success of the poem, which was republished in papers and magazines all over the country. He had stuffed it into one issue of Overland merely to fill a hole, and ever after wished that he hadn...
Cambridge politicians and planners seem to have played out their hand in one of the most expensive poker games in local history. The state Department of Public Works holds all the cards, and, regardless of what Cambridge does, will probably be able to push the unwanted Inner Belt highway across the City, inflicting immense damage...
...more than two years, had spent a day in the field with Premier Ky and was having breakfast with him the next morning, a few hours after the Honolulu conference was announced. With five other U.S. correspondents, McCulloch flew to Hawaii with the Premier, who lost $8 at poker during the 13-hour flight. TIME White House Reporter Hugh Sidey and State Department Correspondent Jess Cook arrived from Washington with President Johnson. After covering the conference, McCulloch and Cook were awakened by a dawn phone call informing them that the editors had decided on the Ky cover. The two correspondents...
...President told Ky he would like to meet him in Honolulu in three to six months to see if "we have only talked or something has been accomplished." That reminded him of a story about two poker players. As the President told it, the first player asked, "What do you have?" "Aces," said the second. "How many aces?" asked the first. "One aces," replied the second. "I hope," said the President, "we don't find out we only had one aces." In fact, the President was surprised and deeply impressed by the determination and political awareness of the Vietnamese...