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...kind that look well in a scrapbook. There were the headlines in Philadelphia when Leo slugged a reporter. And the headlines about what happened in Leo's apartment while Leo was away: when Screen Tough George Raft won $18,000 from a gullible manufacturer in a wild-&-woolly crap game...
Stopping off to warm his ego in a hero-worshiping small town, he seduces the local belle (Ann Blyth), hornswoggles a keen judge of character, her father (John Litel), and cleans every small businessman along Main Street in a succession of crap games. In an expansive moment he also helps his slow-moving brother (William Gargan) to swing an important business deal; a little later he almost persuades his brother's wife (Ruth Warrick) to skip town with him. He has, it seems, just one good streak: his young nephew's fatuous, gee-whillikers devotion inspires...
...started to fall, it caught the hordes of little speculators with no spare cash to protect their holdings. They were ruthlessly sold out by cotton brokers, and this, according to some cotton men, caused the second drop last week. A Memphis cotton man explained: "It's like a crap game-if you get caught, you have...
...tons of steel scrap (worth some $15 a ton), which will just about cover scrapping costs. Any profit will depend upon how much brass, copper, lead, etc. (worth up to $240 a ton) he can salvage. Said company President Morris Lipsett: "It's just like a crap game...
Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's PK crap-shooting [TIME, Aug. 19] has made more than a few of the veteran crapshooters here smile...