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...essentially a decent person consumed by a hopeless passion for pitting the probable against the possible. Her downfall begins during a brief visit to Las Vegas, where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame to join forces with Gambler McNally...
...Preston Tucker, would-be auto manufacturer whose company has been having its financial troubles, proved that his car can really go, but money was still a problem. In Gary, Ind., he pleaded guilty to racing his Tucker Torpedo 55 m.p.h. in a 40-mile zone, could find only $10 in his pockets to meet a $15 fine...
...Robert V. DiBlasio '51, William L. Garrity, Jr. '50, Richard S. Greeley '49, Stephen W. Howe '50, Myles D. Huntington '50, Albert L. Key '50, David M. Key, Jr. '49, Joseph B. Kittredge '51, George G. Loring '50, George R. Minot, 2d '49, Thomas C. Moseley '46, Lewis T. Preston '50, Lawrence W. Ward '50, William E. Yetman '50, Manager John D. Ingram...
First Period--Scoring: Abbot (H) (Huntington) 10:30; Preston (H) 12:51; Oss (D) 14:11, Penalties: Harrison, Garrity, Carman, Thayer, Crowley...
...Walter Coffee abided scrupulously by the rules, they inadvertently set up two of Yale's three scores. At about 7:30 of the second period, Jack Carman was banished to the penalty box on the rarely called infraction of board checking. Seconds later he was joined by Lew Preston on a similar charge. Two men to the good, Yale's first line put tremendous pressure on goalie Yetman and scored twice to go ahead...