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...away until Runyon had gone through the groans and mutters of the painful rising at noon. He would then fling open his bedroom door and announce: "I'm up!" Runyon's education of his son consisted in handing down first principles of conduct, e.g., "Never give a sucker an even break," "All horse players die broke," "How to live with women: Don't." On turning away from the dice table at Saratoga, where he had dropped $10,000 in one month, he warned: "Don't gamble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sorrowful | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...dealt in such stocks as "Stampede Petroleums Ltd.," "Oakridge Mining Corp." and "Candoo Metals & Oils Ltd." Their persuasive salesmen, charged the grand jury, called likely prospects with phony reports of new oil and uranium strikes. A favorite trick was to quote a stock at one price, then lei a sucker buy it for less, pretending he was getting a tremendous bargain when actually the stock was worthless. One promoter made a sale by gasping over the phone that he had "just run in from the field" where a new well was brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Golden Fleecers | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...Schine's attitude. "He always insisted he could do anything he wanted. He could too, you know. The word Schine always seemed to work magic. He could always get plane reservations which nobody else could get. But this power gave him an awful contemptuous air--a "You're the sucker' attitude...

Author: By World Wide, | Title: Schine at Harvard: Boy With the Baton | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

...evidence it gives that Actor Rooney is still a skilled actor. He plays a grease monkey who drives racing cars on the side, a lovelorn little beagle who trots adoringly after the first pretty girl (Dianne Foster) who ever gave him a pat. He finds out too late-sucker's luck -that she has led him into a plot to rob a bank. Mickey drives the getaway car, but discovers at the other end of the crooked road he has taken that the girl he thought it led to has been the property of another man all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...part of the collection of Farouk's father shows the care and feeling that marks the collector. But Farouk's contribution is just a mixed-up accumulation." Added a European dealer who used to sell to Farouk: "He was a very good customer. But he was a sucker. He often paid too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Fond Collector | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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