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...Vegas, where casino doors never close and show business acts are the loss leaders for the gaming tables, once had a problem with its graveyard shift. Predictably, there would be a lone high roller whose eyelids seemed to be held open by pieces of red pimiento; but the little money was creeping off to bed, and the problem was how to keep it awake...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A taped report on amateur roller skating championships at Fort Worth...
...Marxists in terms of class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones...
...comedy, the civil war between generations. Her sharpest jabs are scarcely meant to be funny and are aimed at that badly frayed bogeyman, the Americanization of the Old World. The book ends with a teen-age riot when Yanky Fonzy, a pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred, but what it really needs is a garlic...
Dungeness Crab. A renegade rock 'n' roller, Darin can make some substantial claims to recognition: he has a pleasant if ordinary voice, a remarkable sense of rhythm and a penchant for carrying tunes, although his knees seem to suffer now and then under the load. He sings rapidly, in a style that could be called 2Oth century Benzedrine, slurring the lyrics of Up a Lazy River or Clementine through lips that move no more than a carny ventriloquist's, while the song seems to be coming out of his left ear. He is versatile. At one moment...