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Edmund Wilson doesn't know, apparently, too much about play writhing. But if this play were ever produced, he would make one actor very happy, I wager. That would be the actor who played The Gardener. He is the character who does the moralizing; he is the philosopher whom no one ever listens to. When everyone else has been killed by a death-ray flash-light, he is left on the stage to talk by himself for a good three minutes. A good deal, eh? But now get this--in the first scene the Gardener is an Italian...
...pocketfull of nickels, and phones in bets as soon as they are given to him. The mere passing of money from a student or cab driver to him is not sufficient evidence for arrest; since he phones in the bets immediately, he need take no written record of the wager...
...analyzing his data after completing this work as part of an experiment on the utility of money. In contrast with the Harvard men tested, the National Guard personnel in the experiment were willing to wager even when the odds were not giving them a fair return...
Close Race. He told the descendants of slaves in the country parishes that P.N.P. socialism would mean a return to slavery. He dared P.N.P. leader Manley to a ?5,000 bet on the election outcome. Manley haughtily brushed off the wager as "racecourse conduct" but the flamboyant challenge helped spread the word that Busta himself had not given up hope. In the last stage of the campaign, he made a dashing foray into Kingston. "The P.N.P. say I have run away," he cried. "Here...
...machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote the old maxim "It's not how you stand, but how you run," were ready to wager that the voters would easily remember Hugo Sims and his blue trailer...