Word: croupiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salesman. Suave, grey-haired, medium-sized (5 ft. 10 in.), Loewy talks in a subdued voice that is, at the same time, apologetic and compelling. His face is reposed, gentle, sad, and as inscrutable as that of a Monte Carlo croupier. Obsessively shy, he is always "Mr. Loewy" even to his longtime associates. Even to those who know him well he is something of an enigma. Said one longtime acquaintance: "After all these years, I'm not even sure that I like him!" Everything he does calls attention,-with skilled showmanship, to his work, so that observers at times...
Dean Martin is a handsome, 31-year-old ex-millhand, ex-pug and ex-croupier in a casino, with a post-Crosby baa in his baritone. The zanier half of the comedy is furnished by Jerry Lewis, a 23-year-old with horse teeth and a bangtail bob, who is probably the most precocious comic to come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples...
...Chief Croupier Manuel López Iglesias, who had seen estancias lost on the turn of a baccarat card in the old days, took a philosophical view of his new clientele. "The casino has been really democratized," he said. "People with all kinds of income now come to the casino. They may lose a little, they may win a little. What is important is that it is fun for them...
Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...
Brazil's tremendous gambling industry, which breathed easier when pious, roulette-hating Eduardo Gomes lost his campaign for the presidency, had new cause for jitters. Last week Rio's Cardinal-designate Dom Jaime de Barros Camara was out to drive the croupier from the casino...