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Tall, talkative Albert Hibbs, a graduate student in mathematics at Chicago, had devised the system on a bet with Medical Student Roy Walford. They took a term off from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...
...four days the partners studied a Palace Club roulette wheel, jotting down the winning numbers and recording the machine's pattern.* On the fifth day Hibbs & Walford selected No. 21 and made their first bet-a cautious 25?. As their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their...
...gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil; Nicolas Franco, Spanish Ambassador and brother of El Caudillo, and British Ambassador Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby. To cheering mobs outside His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Gonc,alves Cerejeira read a Papal Bull dated 1179 recognizing the full independence of Portugal...
...campaign to enroll volunteers got off with a typically British start, a mass meeting in London's Albert Hall, where 10,000 were addressed by Air Raid Precautions Chief Sir John Anderson. Sir Walford Davies, Master of the King's Musick, led a singsong, urged the audience to sing loud because the rally was being broadcast "and probably Hitler will pick it up." When it came to singing the Lambeth Walk, he insisted on more umph...
...sincere opinion the Man of the Year-the one outstanding industrial Man of Peace in 1937-Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel. . . . STEPHEN M. WALFORD Wallingford, Conn...