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...special train rattled toward Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., that day in 1946, Britain's wartime Prime Minister and the President of the U.S. indulged in a little poker. The U.S. got taken to the cleaners, as Harry Truman, 80 next week, recalled the incident. Truman marveled that during the ride Winston Churchill, now 89, had also managed to work on "one of the finest speeches ever made in the world." To honor the author of the famed "Iron Curtain" speech, Truman was again at Westminster last week for the groundbreaking of a Churchill Memorial project that will transplant...
...stories, such as the Cuba missile crisis, Salinger rolled up his sleeves, lit a cigar the size of a shinny stick and plowed into his work with admirable professionalism. Most any time he was good for some congenial argument, a $1,000 night of poker, a pungent wisecrack. Jack Kennedy made him a frequent target for teasing, and Pierre never seemed to mind it: "Plucky Pierre," they called him. When he refused to keep a pledge to hike 50 miles, Pierre explained: "I may be plucky, but I ain't stupid...
Stephen Goodwin's "Scratch" contrasts with the tightly drawn plot of "A Common Mistake." The story meanders from a description of a river, to a poker game, to a quarrel between two men over money, to violence over a pool game. Structurally, "Scratch" is a terrible story. And yet, Goodwin probably has more writing talent than any other contributor to the Lion Rampant. His story begins, The water was named in derision by a generation of luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard...
This book has its faults, but none that couldn't be straightened out by Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The story is to poker what The Hustler was to pool...
...poker itself has a nice ring of language. "The raiser came back with a touch, a breath, feeling his way into those checking queens like a man fumbling in the dark." But ultimately the technical side of the novel turns on a confrontation of hands that are bet with a foolishness that belies the experience claimed for the players. Against a pair of tens showing, the Kid's opponent matches a $2,000 bet after three cards on the strength of a possible flush. Win or lose, anyone called The Man ought to be called The Boy for doing...