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Last week they were told for fair. "Gambling, widespread and important, is back at the old stands in Jefferson Parish!" cried the front page of the New Orleans States. "It is spreading like an epidemic." Beneath the banner headlines ran the byline of the stranger at the bar: Edwin Strickland, 39, the balding bachelor reporter of the Birmingham News, who has made a career of sniffing out crime and corruption, in 1954 played a major role in exposing the blend of sex, graft and murder in Phenix City, Ala. (TIME, June...
Farsighted Gamblers. Before Strickland came to town, every cub reporter in New Orleans knew that Sheriff William S. Coci's Jefferson Parish was the place to roll dice on green felt tables and bet on the hushed whirl of the roulette wheel. But no reporter could document the story in depth because the farsighted gamblers had taken the precaution of getting pictures of every newsman in town. When a reporter showed up, sharp-eyed bouncers gave him the thumb...
...MARY STRICKLAND...
...middle-aged Paris stockbroker who callously turned his back on business and family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...
...Martin took his text from the late Strickland Gillilan's Finnigin to Flannigan. It seems that Railroad Section Boss Finnigin was writing overlong accident reports to Superintendent Flannigan, who told him to cut them down. One day some cars left the tracks, but the train soon went on its way. Concluded the verse...