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...other favorites, in order: craps, roulette, 21 (blackjack), bingo and poker. The town has its stories of huge winnings and losses, but individual winnings are restricted by house limits on betting, and nobody ever breaks the bank (the big houses keep week-end reserves of $500,000 and more). Marathon players are commonplace (the local endurance record: 72 hours), and they get breakfast on the house-and lunch and dinner, too, if they are durable...
...billiards of 499,135 points (1907) after five weeks' faultless use of the "anchor stroke" (i.e., the cue ball caroms off the red and white balls jammed in a corner pocket, and rolls back to its original position for another shot); in Lancing, England. After Reece's marathon, the game's rules were revised to bar more than 25 consecutive anchor strokes, cutting Reece's best break under the new rules to 1,151 points...
...Marathon. In Barren Hill, Pa., caught in a stranger's closet, Burglary Suspect Benjamin Waites said that he "was running away from the stevedores," failed to explain how he happened to be 15 miles from Philadelphia's strikebound waterfront...
...Marathon. Eight years later, smartly turned out in his favorite civilian attire-the morning coat and striped pants of the Western diplomat-he stood before the Turkish National Assembly (which he created), in the capital at Ankara (which he created), and for six full days told in the Turkish language (which he purified and revised) the full story of what he had done. He began...
...merits and with prejudice" (i.e., the Government cannot reopen the case, although it can appeal Judge Medina's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court). There was no proof whatever, said Medina, of any conspiracy, and therefore "the monopoly charges fall of their own weight." In all, the marathon trial had cost the bankers at least $4,000,000, and some estimates ran as high as $7,500,000. How much it cost taxpayers, nobody knew...