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...book, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, is about a Save-A-Soul Missionary's (Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost...
...weirdest wager is that he can make any cat pick up a soft-drink bottle from the floor and deposit it on a counter. The gimmick: grab the cat by the tail and pull it around the floor. In desperation, the cat will grab with its claws for anything, including a bottle...
Ascertaining exactly how much of this enormous increase was due to gifts or due to sound investment practices is hard to say; but it is safe to wager that the great part of the increase was due to capital gifts rather than capital gains...
...hiring retired U.S. Navymen to accompany Playboy bunnies and teach backgammon to "the masses" [Feb. 19]. The Navy's variation of backgammon, acey-deucey, is played extensively on board ships at sea by crusty senior petty officers and chief petty officers. They've even been known to wager "small sums" on the game's outcome...
...expected his Harvard counterpart to show up. For all he knew, the Harvard guy was still out there with the Navy, steaming around on a rusting bird farm and arguing Ivy football with Shack the Rack, who had gone to Princeton Surely, he had forgotten about me even-up wager they had made a year earlier after a few beers at the Mavport Officers Club. A standing bet, $100 annually on the Harvard Yale game supplemented yearly according to the cost of living increase. And even if he hadn't, surely the Harvard guy wouldn't be able...