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...ever present," he explains. But could Dad have prepared him for Kitten's un-American attack on television? She dismisses a global panel discussion that JC is ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else I kin do t'kill that bastid, sep grab him by his lectrick line and pull...
...more than 40 years Beaumont, Texas, was known as a wide-open oil town where booze, bookmaking and bordellos flourished. But no longer: last week, in the wake of a sweeping investigation by the Texas legislature, crap games and horse parlors were closed down. The madams and their girls had checked out of their "hotels" and departed for brighter lights. And 43 people were under indictment on vice charges, including several top officials of Beaumont, neighboring Port Arthur and surrounding Jefferson County...
...small, tight-lipped hood from Brooklyn named Joseph ("Crazy Joey") Gallo. In 1959, when he met Robert Kennedy, then counsel for Senator John Mc-Clellan's rackets-investigating committee, Crazy Joey examined Kennedy's office rug and offered his professional opinion: "It would be nice for a crap game...
...career out of the engagements that the pair has since turned down: Evelyn, for instance, has bypassed invitations from the Salzburg, Glyndebourne and Spoleto festivals. Heavily in demand for knotty contemporary scores, they have been especially careful to avoid being stereotyped in what Evelyn once called "this modrun crap." have studiously built up a repertory of classical roles...
...compulsive gamblers in this country who drop $20 billion a year. At weekly meetings, stories like Fred's are heard every week (as in A.A., members are referred to only by their first names). An hour before his wedding. Businessman Danny fled a raided crap game, scrambled over a barbed-wire fence, tore his wedding clothes, and gashed his hands; he finally made the church in borrowed clothes and with bandages decorating both hands up to his wrists. Joe, a former minor-league baseball player, kited $100,000 worth of bad checks, went to prison, where he promptly began...