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...sucker with a "system" is always welcome in Reno, where gambling is legal. One day last month two young amateur gamblers strode confidently into Reno's gaudy Palace Club. They were armed with a bankroll of $120 and a "scientific" theory cooked up between classes at the University of Chicago...
...after 65 hours of play and 6,202 spins of the wheels, Hibbs & Walford cashed in their chips-still $1,500 ahead of Harold's Club and $7,500 ahead of Reno's roulette wheels. One veteran professional gambler was still unconvinced. Said he: "The last big winner here was twelve years ago. He had a system, too. He's washing dishes now across the street...
Divorced. Milton Berle, 39, radio's tireless teller of famed old jokes; by Blond Beauty Joyce Mathews, 27; after six years, one child (adopted); in Reno...
...original claim holders sold out early. Writes Lewis: "When Alvah Gould sold, for less than $500, his half interest in the Gould & Curry, he boasted of having duped his fellow Californians; but his claim yielded 15 millions, and Gould ended his days operating a peanut stand in Reno...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...