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...table was surrounded by a crowd of gamblers, many of whom placed heavy stakes on the red, figuring that the chances against the black turning up one more time were billions to one. However, since what has occurred before can have no conceivable effect on any given spin of the wheel, the chances against the black turning up once more at any stage of the tun were exactly the same as at any other time-i.e., 19 to 18, or a little more than even.* The failure of the frantic red-players to realize this gave the house...
Vardis Fisher's candid, uneven, sometimes powerful tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...
Coach Tom Bolles' tentative first beat, which also tried a brief spin earlier during one of the temporary thaws, took an easy run down to the head of the basin, with Captain Spike Chace at stroke, John Clark 7,Doug Erickson 6, John Radway 5, John Senior 4, Dudley Talbot 3, Chandler Hovey, Jr. 2, David Scull, bow, and George Shortlidge...
...puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
...Goldwyn Follies (Samuel Goldwyn). Producer Goldwyn is no subscriber to the theory of his rival producer, Darryl Zanuck: that a screen musicomedy should be tightly woven, integrating songs and dances as part of its body proper. Mr. Goldwyn's technique is to spin a revue: a slender thread of narrative linking a series of specialties...