"a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful. Beaver's idea became reality when Guinness employee Christopher Chataway recommended University friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The twin brothers were commissioned to compile what became ""The Guinness Book of Records"" in August 1954. A thousand copies were printed and given away. After the founding of ""The Guinness Book of Records"" at 107 Fleet Street, London, the first 198-page edition was bound on 27 August 1955 and went to the top of the British best seller lists by Christmas."
"more person than is necessary to commit the crime. (It takes two people to gamble. Therefore, two people gambling cannot be guilty of conspiracy to gamble. Three can.) See the Memoir (Philadelphia, 1891) by his daughter, Mrs Viele, and several friends; and J. B. Moore's ""Brief Sketch of the Life of Francis Wharton,"" prefaced to the first volume of the ""Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence"". Francis Wharton Francis Wharton (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1820 – February 21, 1889) was an American legal writer and educationalist. He graduated at Yale in 1839, was admitted to the bar in 1843, became prominent in Pennsylvania"
"invested in the ""Continental Press"" and ""Empire News"", both based in Cleveland and run by mobsters Morris ""Mushy"" Wexler and Sam ""Gameboy"" Miller. James Ragen, another friend and associate in the wire business, was murdered in 1946 in a Chicago gangland feud. A federal grand jury in 1940 indicted 18 people, including McBride and Wexler, over the supply of information used in gambling. The allegations were based on federal laws that forbade interstate transmission of lottery results; prosecutors treated the race results as lottery lists. He was never arrested or tried over his role in the business, however. McBride was"
"monopolism and the use of land value tax as a remedy for them. She was granted on January 5, 1904. In 1906, she moved to Chicago. That year, she and fellow Georgists formed the Economic Game Co. to self-publish her original edition of ""The Landlord's Game"". In 1910 she married Albert Phillips and Parker Brothers published her humorous card game Mock Trial. In 1912, ""The Landlord's Game"" was adapted in Scotland by the Newbie Game Co. as ""Bre'r Fox and Bre'r Rabbit"". Although the instructions claimed it was protected by a British patent, there is no evidence this was actually"
"Watson, and several others were convicted on conspiracy charges, with Roxborough receiving a - to 5-year sentence, and Reading sentenced to four to five years. Benny Mason, of the ""B&M"" policy house, and Buster Mathews of the ""Goldfield"" policy house, were the main kingpins of the numbers game in 1930s and 1940s Cleveland. In a 1935 raid on the B&M house on E. 46th St., police found 200 policy writers on hand who had handed in their books and were waiting for the payoff. In a 1949 arrest, police picked up a 35-year-old woman named Robinson who told them she"
"dating from around 1905. Although he also wrote fiction and contributed short stories to magazines, his most prolific work was on the subject of card, dice and table games being author of over 50 such books covering every imaginable card game: euchre, poker, conquian, rummy, whist, auction bridge, contract bridge and other bridge variations, and many more. Foster also wrote on other games such as mahjong, dice, chess, and dominoes. Foster invented or developed: Robert Frederick Foster Robert Frederick Foster (May 31, 1853 – December 25, 1945) of New York City, known as R. F. Foster, was a memory training"
"of the day's receipts to the house. Bug writers employed a number of schemes to foil police: in 1936 police observed writers carrying the day's bet slips gathering under the bridge which passes over the railroad tracks at Nelson St. As lottery squad officers watched, a pick-up car pulled up and stopped on the bridge overhead, the writers threw their paper sacks full of bet slips up to it, and the car sped off. In 1937 indictments were brought against the alleged ""big shots"" of the bug game in Atlanta, including Bob Hogg, the Hall brothers (Albert and Leonard), Flem"
"by Perrier in 1906, and rapidly became a best-selling series. Other similar sporting themes (including ""The Rules Of Cricket"") followed with equal commercial success. He married Helena Wallace (of Wadhurst, Sussex) in Lambeth in 1907, and by 1911 the couple were living at Hogarth House, Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey. Their daughter Irene Crombie was born there in 1914. In 1915, part of Hogarth House was sold to leading Bloomsbury Set socialites Leonard and Virginia Woolf, who named their hobby business the Hogarth Press after the building. Charles Crombie continued to produce illustrations for books and magazines in the UK and"
"1992). A.K.A. ""The Professor"" and ""The Man That Fooled Houdini"", he was born as David Frederick Wingfield Verner in Ottawa. One of the most influential 20th-century performing-arts magicians. 1898 - Lewis Davenport Ltd. was founded, the oldest family magic business in the world and still in existence today. 1902 - The ""Expert at the Card Table"" is published by The Charles T. Powner Co. was written by S. W. Erdnase. Considered by serious card workers as one of the most important books written on the subject. 1902 - May 10, The Society of American Magicians is founded at Martinka's Magic"
"New York. Morley founded The Baker Street Irregulars—the first society devoted to the Holmes canon—in 1934. The Sherlockian game (also known as the Holmesian game, the Great Game, or simply the Game) attempts to resolve anomalies and clarify details about Holmes and Watson from the canon. The Game, which treats Holmes and Watson as real people (and Conan Doyle as Watson's literary agent), combines history with aspects of the stories to construct biographies and other scholarly analyses of these aspects. Ronald Knox is credited with inventing the Game. One detail analyzed in the Game is Holmes's birth date. The chronology"
"year old Londoner, approached a bookmaker called Leslie Carey, who controlled twenty betting shops, and the pair hatched a plan that was funded by Carey. They selected a race, in which in Turner's opinion two of the greyhounds had no chance of winning, and then they recruited 170 people in three groups, who would be paid to assist them. The first group of helpers were tasked to place bets on the other four greyhounds in the remaining twelve combination bets at off course betting shops. The bets were placed shortly before the race got underway and crucially dividends (in 1964)"
"result of the Royal Baccarat Scandal of 1891, and bears resemblances to the card games Faro and Basset, both of which were very popular during the 19th century. The rules of Contract bridge were originally published in 1925, the game having been derived from Bridge games with rules published as early as 1886, Bridge games, in turn, having evolved from the earlier game of Whist. The first documented game of poker dates from an 1833 Mississippi river steamer. During the American Civil War the game was popular with soldiers and additions were made including stud poker, and the straight. Modern"
"for the eight possible combinations, and a handful of players came forward to claim approximately $1.8 million ($ today) of the then-record $3.5 million payout ($ today). At first, they had no actual evidence that the drawing was fixed. On the date of the drawing, the Maragos brothers travelled around Pennsylvania buying large quantities of tickets containing the eight possible numbers. The investigation was broken open when an anonymous tip led to a bar near Philadelphia where the brothers had bought a large number of lottery tickets. An employee remembered the brothers coming into the bar with a platinum-blonde woman"
"men. After dinner on 8 September, the guests at Tranby Croft listened to music from Ethel Lycett Green until about 11 pm, when the prince suggested a game of baccarat. Although the Wilsons did not have a suitably-sized table, Stanley Wilson improvised, putting two card tables alongside the smoking room table—all of which were of differing sizes—and covered them with a tapestry cloth. Among the evening's players were the prince, who acted as dealer; Sassoon, who took the part of banker; and Gordon-Cumming. Sitting next to the last-named was Stanley Wilson, who was on Levett's left. As the game began"
"high stakes and there were instances of teams being sued for non-payment of wagers they had lost. In July and August 1727, two matches were organised by stakeholders Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton. References to these games confirm that they drew up Articles of Agreement between them to determine the rules that must apply in their contests. The original handwritten articles document drawn up by Richmond and Brodrick has been preserved. It is among papers which the West Sussex Record Office (WSRO) acquired from Goodwood House in 1884. This is the first time"
"deadline ends, Punky and her friends have lost because one of her friends, Allen, forgot to spend the 98 cents he got as change when he bought chocolate. Fortunately, one of the dollars was spent on a lottery ticket, and the heroes win $100,000, saving the orphanage. Brewster's Millions Brewster's Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, and the novel or play has been adapted into films twelve times, four of which"
"Barter (d. 1897). He had thirteen children altogether. He was the older brother of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln. See his ""Annals of my Early Life"" (1891), and ""Annals of My Life"", edited by W Earl Hodgson (1893); also ""The Episcopate of Charles Wordsworth"", by his nephew John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury (1899). Charles Wordsworth Charles Wordsworth (22 August 1806 – 5 December 1892) was Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in Scotland. He was a classical scholar, and taught at public schools in England and Scotland. He was a rower, cricketer and athlete and he instigated both the"
"Maxwell Struthers Burt Maxwell Struthers Burt (October 18, 1882 Baltimore, Maryland – August 29, 1954, Jackson Hole, Wyoming), was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Struthers Burt grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Princeton University in 1904. In 1908 he moved to Wyoming and founded, with Louis Joy, the JY Ranch, which would later become the famous Rockefeller Ranch of the same name. In 1912, following a dispute with Louis Joy, he established the Bar B C Ranch, a dude ranch. He met and married his wife, Katherine Newlin Burt, an author of Western novels, in the same"
"began playing together with the Cubs in 1902, and formed a double play combination that lasted through April 1912. The Cubs won the pennant four times between 1906 and 1910, often defeating the Giants en route to the World Series. The poem was first published in the ""New York Evening Mail"" on July 12, 1912. Popular among sportswriters, numerous additional verses were written. The poem gave Tinker, Evers, and Chance increased popularity and has been credited with their elections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Throughout the history of the Chicago Cubs' franchise, fifteen different Cubs pitchers"
"second baseman for the St. Louis Browns who had placed a bet on the game and later informed to White Sox owner Charles Comiskey in hopes of getting a reward. The 1988 movie ""Eight Men Out"" is based on this scandal. In 1929, pioneer station WNAC Radio moved to new studios inside the Hotel Buckminster, with the entrance on the Brookline Avenue side (21 Brookline Avenue), which would become the station's home for the next four decades. WNAC made history in January 1923 by linking up with New York's WEAF for the first chain broadcast (it lasts for only five"
"Write Me a Murder Write Me A Murder is a 1961 mystery play in three acts by Frederick Knott. The play tells the story of the brothers Clive and David Rodingham, who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father. They then meet business man Charles and his wife Julie, a would-be thriller writer. Charles is anxious to work with the brothers on property deals, and so encourages David, who is also a writer, to co-author a murder story with Julie. It isn’t long before the two concoct the perfect crime, which is soon twisted into a reality…"
"is more at stake here than a bet. Out of Order (novel) Out of Order, first published in 1936, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the ""Codfish Sherlock"". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Cape Cod's resident detective Asey Mayo has a long history with millionaire Bill Porter, owner of Potter Motors. Bill's men's club, the Hybrid, has a long history of funny bets on the night of the big football game, but when Bill Porter's enemy Harper Dixon bets Bill $50,000 that Asey Mayo"
"writer who later co-founded Parachute Press in 1983. The couple's only child, Matthew (born June 7, 1980) works in the music industry. Both were re-released in 2010 under the name Bitten. The books followed the standard Choose Your Own Adventure formula, but also featured ""flagged"" choices that were determined by choices earlier in the book. (For example, ""If you already have the Unfathomable Pocket of Crowden, turn to page 65; otherwise, turn to page 78."") The books attempted to introduce a further ""role-playing game-like"" element with the inclusion of randomization to determine events such as the outcome of a battle"
"major part in making him famous. Subsequent reports in the press and even in the House of Commons refer to him as ""Monte Carlo Wells"". In 1935, there was a film called ""The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"", and in 1983, Michael Butterworth wrote a book of the same name. In 1988, a musical farce entitled ""Lucky Stiff"", based on Mr. Butterworth's book, opened off-Broadway. However, these fictional accounts were only based in the loosest possible way on Wells' exploits. Charles Wells (gambler) Charles De Ville Wells (1841–1922) is one of the men who broke the bank"
"Merle Robbins Merle Robbins (c. 1912 – January 15, 1984) was the inventor of the card game UNO. He was a barber from Reading, Ohio. In 1971 he invented UNO to resolve an argument with his son about the rules of Crazy Eights. The original decks were designed and made on the family dining room table. Then he and his family saved $8,000 and created the first 5,000 UNO decks to sell. At first, he sold them out of his barber shop, while Ray handed them out to his students. In 1981, he sold the rights to UNO to International"
"Games for $50,000 plus royalties of 10 cents per copy. Today, the game is produced by toy giant Mattel in 80 countries and has sold 151 million copies worldwide. Merle Robbins died in 1984. Merle Robbins Merle Robbins (c. 1912 – January 15, 1984) was the inventor of the card game UNO. He was a barber from Reading, Ohio. In 1971 he invented UNO to resolve an argument with his son about the rules of Crazy Eights. The original decks were designed and made on the family dining room table. Then he and his family saved $8,000 and created the"
"John Gutfreund. The book's name is taken from liar's poker, a high-stakes gambling game popular with the bond traders in the book. ""Liar's Poker"" follows two different story threads, though not necessarily in chronological order. The first thread is autobiographical, and follows Lewis through his college education and his hiring by Salomon Brothers (now a subsidiary of Citigroup) in 1984. This part of the book gives a first-person account of how bond traders and salesmen truly work, their personalities, and their culture. The book captures well an important period in the history of Wall Street. Important figures in that history"
"The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by John Dickson Carr is a Sherlock Holmes story. The story was published in the 1954 collection, ""The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes"", a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. While waiting up late one night, Holmes and Watson are visited by the night watchman of a famous waxworks and his grand–daughter. The watchman has noticed that the playing cards in the hand of a wax figure in a Chamber of Horrors exhibit have changed. Holmes becomes immediately interested in this mystery and sends Watson"
"birthday. He had puzzles published under the pseudonym ""Esrom"" (his surname in reverse). In addition to crosswords, Morse had an interest in other types of word puzzles, and was a frequent contributor to """". He was also a chess writer and wrote a book called ""Chess Problems: Tasks and Records"". Colin Dexter's fictional detective, Inspector Morse, was named after him. In 1955, he married Belinda Marianne, daughter of Lt-Colonel R. B. Y. Mills, and they had three sons and two daughters (one of whom died young). Lady morse died in 2017. He was an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford,"
"so that they could obtain game information in advance. Initially successful, this ethically shady activity was ultimately discovered and exposed by local gamblers puzzled by the brothers' uncanny success. Daugherty graduated from law school in 1881 and returned home to Ohio, where he accepted a job in the office of a Washington Court House attorney, spending his spare time preparing to take the Ohio state bar examination. In 1882 Daugherty was elected by the Fayette County Republican Central Committee as the recording secretary of the organization. Daugherty ran for political office in the election of 1882, winning election as the"
"Landlord's Game was first published in 1913 by the Newbie Game Company, formed by a Liberal Committee from the village of Newbie in Dumfries, under the title ""Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit""; although, despite the title change, it was recognizably the same game. ""Landlord"" sold well in the Northeast amongst its left-wing intellectuals, while ""Brer"" was unsuccessful. Scott Nearing, socialist professor of economics at Wharton School of Finance from 1906 to 1915, lived in Arden in 1910, where Magie invented the game, learned about the game and taught it to his students. College students made up their own boards to"
"September 1956, and subsequently in a book titled ""Playing Blackjack to Win"" that was published in 1957. The book, with a foreword written by Charles Van Doren, the TV quiz-show star who later was involved in a game fixing scandal, contained a pull-out strategy chart with sections on Draw or Stand, Doubling Down, and Splitting Pairs. The book did include, in a chapter titled ""Using the Exposed Cards to Improve Your Chances,” the first valid card-counting system ever published but their method was not strong enough to offer a positive-expectation strategy for the player, although it did offer the least"
"quickly expanded it by selling luxury goods to American tourists, and also owned West End club the Hanover Grand, where he gave Robert Earl his first job. He later sold the business in 1979 to make his initial wealth. After selling the family business in the late 1970s, Lewis moved into currency trading in the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in his move to the Bahamas where he is now a tax exile. In September 1992, Lewis teamed up with George Soros to bet on the pound crashing out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. The event, which was dubbed Black"