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...that pro football players had been "shaving points" and associating with hoodlums. Alex decided to clear the air, and, fortified with indiscretion, taped a TV interview for NBC. He was sure that no pro football player would ever try to fix a game. But, personally, he enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never bet more than a pack of cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 25, 1963 | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

When you tally the supporting voices, add mine to yours. Let's get the job done in Cuba ourselves, once and for all. Anger and resentment are not enough to contain encroaching Communism; traditional American action is long overdue. I'll wager the consequences will not be as dire as predicted. S/SGT. CALVIN D. REAM U.S.A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1962 | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...colony wants to give [him] its annual Oscar for achievement in the field of romance . . . giving Durie Malcolm Desloge the season's outstanding rush. The two were inseparable at all social functions and sports events. They even drove down to Miami to hold hands at football games and wager on the horses. Durie is the daughter of the George H. Malcolms of Palm Beach and Chicago. She is beautiful and intelligent. Tiny obstacle to orange blossoms is that the Kennedy clan frowns upon divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An American Genealogy | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...wager a bottle of good bourbon that 4-3-2 is also a winning combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 30, 1962 | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...knew it. He became the biggest of the big-time spenders, and has kept it up. Jackie saves little and gambles as if he were using Monopoly scrip. He is willing to bet $100 a hole in a golf game, and he lost $3,000 on a wager that Grace Kelly would never marry the Prince of Monaco. With him, betting is as direct a challenge as Indian wrestling. Says Arthur Godfrey: "I understand that he finds out what his opponent's top wager is and then bets him twice that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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