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Gambling requires no fleets of trucks, cutting and bottling plants, secret garages, machine-gun battles with Coast Guard cutters or dumb cops on motorcycles. Gambling can be a pretty peaceful business and a man can keep the overhead down. Slot machines, punchboards, policy and numbers games, gambling casinos and bookmaking-the gangsters tried them all, made easy money on them all. Their customers range from the penny numbers players of the big-city slums to the big-money set who keep their change in century notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: It Pays to Organize | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...House of Commons, ever alert to possible cruelty toward dumb animals, had some questions. Richard Hurd, Tory member for the Newbury division of Berkshire, asked Griffiths: "Can the Minister tell us how the birds that will survive are to be fed for the next few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scrambled Eggs | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the show (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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