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...year for bookies; estimates of the amount wagered range as high as $260 million. At the Stardust Lounge in Las Vegas, where Super Bowl betting is done legally, fans flock to the windows. Says the lounge's manager: "They'll come here out of the cracks of walls???from Texas, the Midwest, everywhere?to watch the game and bet." The word among bookies on the biggest Super Bowl bet ever made...
...MYSTERY OE THE SINGING WALLS??? William Averill Stowell?Ap pleton ($2.00). A young engineer comes down from Alaska to marry an heiress. In Manhattan, going to me her guardian, the source of her wealth the engineer encounters him drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
WITHIN THESE WALLS???Rupert Hughes?Harper ($2.00) Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?...
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