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...Cincinnati, a race-track tout named Keith Harold Robinson was found not guilty of trespassing at River Downs track. Robinson, said the court, was not on the premises illegally; he had paid for a two-dollar ticket of admission. For the track, and for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, the verdict made a major problem out of a minor incident: Robinson filed a $100,000 suit for damages. While he was held for six days on the trespassing charge, he said, "his loyal and faithful dog," an 18-year-old mongrel named Skeeter, "was left unattended and, as a direct...
...Mahoney. 73. craggy, quick-tongued publisher of the Miami News, who started his newspaper career in Ohio, then went to Florida, where in 1923 he had bought the News for his father-in-law, Newspaper Owner James M. Cox, and proceeded to make life uncomfortable for Miami's race-track racketeers and expose the city's corrupt "termite administration'' in 1938 (for which the News won a Pulitzer Prize); of injuries suffered in the explosion of an anesthetic (cyclopropane) during an operation for lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...dimension in concertgoing will unfold with the opening of Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts next fall. Proving that art is not above imitating lower forms of life, the Philharmonic's architects have adopted a favorite gimmick of baseball and race-track clubhouses, enabling ticket holders to watch the main event on television from the convivial comfort of the bar. Furthermore, scarcely a corridor or a dressing room in the 2,612-seat concert hall will be out of range of a television camera. From the subterranean garage, where VIPs will disembark from...
Characteristically, the style is staccato, bone-bare, oracular and dull. The format is uninviting; usually four letterhead-size pages printed to look as if they had come fresh from a typewriter. The contents often suggest the confidential whisper of a race-track tout. The cost can be incredibly high: as much as $125 a year for some 3,000 words a week-an annual total well below the word count in one average issue of the New York Times (185,000). Yet so insatiable is the public appetite for inside dope that in the few decades since its birth...
...dependability of a two-faced coin or a doctored roulette wheel, Americans each year lose between $20 billion and $30 billion on gambling-but they never lose interest. The lure of winnings without work is so powerful that neither moral censure, nor restrictive legislation, nor the tears of race-track widows-let alone mere losses-has ever been able to dampen it. Gambling has bred crime and corruption; it has also financed wars, built schools and churches, and, on Wall Street, produced something called People's Capitalism. "Gambling," a congressional committee once said, "is the lifeblood of the nation...