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...restlessness that helped push America westward, his flamboyant character that gave luster to frontier individualism, and his legerdemain and quick gun that often forced the coming of law and order. Gambling has also produced some of the most colorful characters in American history. There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig (which one has the pea?) and could still outwit the best of them at 70; Elijah Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across the country in teams. There was Madame Mustache of Nevada City, Calif...
Shows definitely dumped include Dan Raven, Riverboat (both NBC), and David Susskind's Witness (CBS), which turned into a shambles after a promising start...
...mess of colossal proportions," wrote Crosby, recalling better days under the "visionary" regime of Pat Weaver and citing the network's decline in quality during the gradual transition from good dramatic shows like Philco Playhouse to dreary series like Riverboat. Moreover, said Crosby, the network profits were falling off sharply. And in five years, by the ratings, it had sunk from the No. 1 to the No. 3 network...
Hausmusik. The most popular groups at both festivals bore nostalgic. New Orleans-styled names. The winning band at Berlin was called "Papa Kos Jazzin' Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care...
...FINSTERWALD, 30, needs only a hairline mustache to look like a riverboat gambler, but he too often plays golf like an old maid: a top hole-by-hole tactician, his cautious strategy is simply to finish well up in the money (since 1958 Finsterwald has won only 10 of his 105 tournaments, but finished fifth or better 48 times, including 16 seconds). Son of a lawyer in Athens, Ohio, Finsterwald went to Ohio University, developed an all-round game to compensate for his slight, hollow-chested build (5 ft. 10 in., 160 Ibs.). Finsterwald's steady brand of play avoids...