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...father Fred, a megarich developer based in Brooklyn, dispatched a lawyer in December to buy $3 million worth of chips at Trump Castle, in effect giving Donald a loan. Last week the younger Trump would acknowledge only that "a group bought some chips, and that's not a totally unstandard thing." According to casino regulators, this would mean they will have to evaluate whoever bought the chips to determine whether the individuals are legally qualified to be investors in the casino business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: Chips from the Old Block | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...agers. It is, rather, a sophisticated comedy of modern manners, more reminiscent of Noel Coward than of Corliss Archer. Enid Bagnold's dry English wit rescues her new comedy-drama from the pitfalls of its situation and deftly transforms an apparently standard British household into a group of extraordinarily unstandard living people...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Playgoer | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

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