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...executives that not all union leaders are bogeymen -and vice versa. Despite a six-figure income, he continues to live in an unpretentious suburban home that he bought 20 years ago, takes little part in Detroit's posh country-club life. In off-bargaining season, he plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy'' (the Teamsters' Hoffa), "Jim" (the Electrical Workers...
...House Agriculture Committee, he continued playing the grain market. Coad claimed to Mollenhoff that it was obvious that he had not used inside information, since he had ended up losing money. Moreover, Coad had suffered heavy gambling losses, dropping as much as $2,000 in one after-hours poker session at Washington's Army and Navy Club, and he had bounced a $4,000 check on his account with the House sergeant at arms...
Even while he made his millions, Clint Sr. was never too busy for his boys. They lived in a lively, colorful and noisy household, populated by Clint Sr.'s business cronies, learned to play poker and to hunt squirrel, duck and quail in the best Texas style. When John was only ten, Clint began teaching him the basic lessons in financial gain: you can buy something, and make a profit on it, without using your own money. He sold John a calf on credit for $25, took his signed note to pay the price plus interest. Young John later...
...inside the sausages, the passengers-who, after years of similar grinding up, are normally calm in such circumstances-began to get restless. Some climbed out and began walking toward the nearest street. Others read and reread their papers, checked the contents of their dispatch cases for minor work undone. Poker and bridge games flourished and waned as some players ran out of money. The thirsty on trains carrying bar cars wedged there into one solid mass, and after all the good stock was gone, they were reduced to drinking warm beer. On one train, a passenger broke out a loaf...
...French cuffs, Joe Levine at 55 suggests a sort of low-ceilinged Harry Golden. He is low-key, as well - a surprisingly quiet businessman who was born in a Boston slum, learned about money and gambling from his tailor stepfather, "who made $4 a week and liked to play poker." He quit school at 14, became a drummer for a dress company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older brother. Drifting on, he lost $75,000 in the stock market, taught driving to the novice customers of a Bronx...