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Daring gambling
built Todd’s career

 

* By BOB THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD (AP)—
never been poor.

Being poor is a state of mind:

° Fyne
anon

ve
being

“ve been broek

broke i is a temporary situation.”

This explains as well as any-
thing the career of Mike Todd,
a fabulous gambler whose luck

ran out when his plane crashed |

Saturday in the New Mexico
badlands.

- Todd was considered an ecnor-

mously lucky man. Certainly:
luck—another word for good:
timing—plays an important role ‘
In the lives of all successful!
eople.
? But Todd didn't wait for luck :
fo tap him on the snoulder. He:
went crashing ahead on projects |
which his critics scoffed at as
foolhardy. Sometimes
proved to be right.

« At one time, folowing a string:

of stage fiascos, Todd was $t,-
105,616 In debt.
THE OTHER SIDE
* But more often Todd proved
the scoffers to be visionless dolts. |
At his death, his earnings from |
“Around the World in 80 Days’
were piling up in such millions:
that even he was amaze

What was it, aside from luck,
that propeled Todd on a roller

coast life during his furious 50.
years?
The answer miy be in his

carly years as the son of a Polish
rabbi in Minneapolis. His name
was Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen,
ana@he was nicknamed Toad.

Avrom was-a hustler-—-he had:
He jerked sodas, sold the;
peddled
sold :
carnival, |

to be.
Minneapolis Journal,
fruit, played the cornet,
shoes, shilled for a
worked for a pharmacist. At 17,
he headed a construction com-;
pany and was a married man.

Goldbogen realized the best.

place for a man of his drive was hearts, she carried it to four.

they’

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show business.
fnew name. He borrowed Michael
from his own son and evolved
_the Todd from his nick-name.,

Gamble followed gamble, from
“The Flame Dance” at the Chic-
ago World's Fair to sumptuous
Broadway productions. Some of
the theatre crowd considered
him a carnival guy when he
lscored with burlesque - type
ishows like “Star and = Garter”
cand “Streets of Paris.” But he
proved he was no bum by offer-
ing Maurice Evans in ‘Hamilet”
and Moliere'’s “The Would-Be
,Gentleman.”

Gambling finally turned sour
‘for Todd—too many flop plays
‘and too many slow horses. His
‘debts mounted and the Broad-
way crowd counted him out.

But the underestimated the
hustling kid from Minneapolis.
‘Todd -

i To be continued: How Mike
''Podd shook up Hollywood.

But he needed nv

 

 

 

BLACKWOOD

BRIDGE

By EASLEY BLACKWOOD

Mrs. Rhule’s two-club
man convention and asked

card major suit if he had one.

on

 

NEARING COMPLETION—Centennial chairman Alderman R.
G. Large examines nearly finished replica of famous Wolf
totem pole. destroyed here several years ago through care-
lessness. Charles Dudoward (left) who is carving the replica
at. Port Simpson, is putting the finishing touches on the 45-
foot pole, to be towed to Prince Rupert for raising at the
climax of Centennial celebrations August 2, a “potlach.”
~-Staff photo by Meinhart Lagies.

 

 

 

bid was part of the Stay-
her partner to bid a four-:
When Mr. Abel bid two.
With a balanced hand.

sevescercocsce cverssvccrcorerrs N(| some strength in every suit she would have done.
better to bid three no trump over the opening bid. .

Fund for widow |,
reaches $14,000

% OAKVILLE, Ont. @-—-A fund

‘for Mrs. Carmela Pasut, whose |
. husband was killed while she,
-* was on her way to Canada from:
‘italy, has exceeded $14,000, it’
yas announced Sunday night at:
a variety show in the Century:
Theatre.

POP ILO DOLE ODO ED DO DEPP VOLE PELE EOD

Mr. Dale was tuned in to the,
| bidding and since each of his!
‘opponents has shown a four-

1eard heart holding and yet pad , chance and he took it.

steered away from no trump,

‘appeared that a tiump opening
was the best shot.
‘he
‘other heart.

‘diamond from his hand.
There appeared to be only one.

He drop-'
t' ped the queen of diamonds un-:
der the king. Now. no matter

Accordingly, how Mr. Abel played, he had to
laid down the ace and an-|

lose two diamond tricks to Mrs. -
‘Keen, who held the ace-ten over,

Mr. Abel won the second heart | dummy's jack-nine. \

with the
trump to dummy’s jack. He re-

nine and led a third]

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UK.-RUSSIA TALK PROPOSAL
EARNS LORD SHARP REBUTTAL

LONDON (Reuters) The Daily Sketch criticizes the sug-
gestion of newspaper publisher Lord Beaverbrook that Britain
should, if necessary, have unilateral top-level talks with
Russia.

Beaverbrook. in a signed article in The Sunday Express,
urged British Premier Harold Macmillan to go to Moscow
aione if President Eisenhower will not accompany him on
such a mission.

“If Macmillan went there without Eisenhower what kind
of agreement could he bring home that would be of any
value?” the right-wing Sketch asks.

“The price of peace is not and never can be a
the Americans.
“For Britain it would mean one of two fates:
slavery.”

break with

annihiiation
or

Europe trips
by 1961
to cost $150

ROTTERDAM = (Reu-
ters)—Four giant passen-
ger liners which will be-
come the largest ships
afloat will be built here to
earry North American
tourists to Isurope at $150
each way.

Details of the four liness,
which will cost $85,000,000 each,
were announced here today by
American-European Lines, which
have ordered the vessels.

Two of the liners sall between
New York and Britain and two
between New York and Lisbon.

Each will have about 3,000

luxury cabins with baths, with

room for 10,000 passengers.

There will be only tourist class

on the boat and fares are ex-

pected to be about S150 a trip.

There will also be four large |
dining rooms, two night clubs.
and two movie theatres.

The first ship, to be named
the “New Yorker.’ is due to be
launched in 1961 and to make its
maiden voyage in 1962. The other:
three ships are expected to be!
completed soon after. |

At present the biggest liner rr
afloat is  Cunard’s 83,673-ton |
“Queen Elizabeth.”

Both the “New Yorker” and a!
second to be named the “Lisbon” |
will sail under the Portuguese;
| flag. They are being financed by |
ian American combine and the;
capital will be supplied by firms |
jin the United States, Spain, Italy
‘and France. |

 

 

PIONEER COURSES '
Lectures in enginecring were |
introduced in the arts faculty of:
McGill University, Montreal, as)

early as 1856.

 

 

 

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