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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this high-stakes, high-rolling event,risk-seeking students used chips to bet instandard casino games, including blackjack, craps,roulette and poker. In addition, several studentswere awarded prizes at the end of the night...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 500 Students Attend Council's Casino Night | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

More fortunate -- indeed kissed by fortune -- were Army pilots George Welch and Kenneth Taylor, who had gone from a dance at the Wheeler Officers' Club to an all-night poker game. They were still in formal dress at 8 a.m. when they saw the first Japanese planes open fire overhead. Under strafing fire, Taylor's car careened back to the P-40 fighters at Haleiwa Field. Taking off, the two went looking for Japanese planes and soon found them over Wheeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...Russian navy at the Strait of Tsushima in 1905. Yamamoto had come to know the U.S. as a graduate student at Harvard and as naval attache in Washington. And as executive officer of Japan's naval flight school, he had learned the new religion of air power. He loved poker, bridge and shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Said one of his top aides: "He had a gambler's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

With Wall Street powerhouse Salomon Brothers enmeshed in scandal, the forthcoming screen version of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis' best-selling account of life at the firm, is a hot ticket. Cameras are expected to roll next spring. But who will play fallen Salomon chairman John Gutfreund? Word is that MARLON BRANDO is being considered for the tough, cigar-chomping role, and James Spader for the freshman trainee based on Lewis. Warner Bros. says it's too early to tell who'll get the casting call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big John Hoped They Would Cast Bruce Willis | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...perfume business today is a contest between commercial calculation and customer whim, with the marketers growing ever more sophisticated. But there are still a few wild cards in the poker game. This fall will also see the launch of Omar Sharif's signature scent for women, which will come in at $750 an ounce. For this whopping sum the customer gets a Baccarat crystal flacon and two refills a year for her life -- or the perfume's. Who knows? Four cherries and a banana? Or maybe a five-cherry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fragrances The War of the Noses | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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