Modern Card Sharps use Scientific Methods
by ALFRED ALBELLI
All the resources of modern science and invention are employed by the clever card sharp who sets out to fleece a wealthy victim. You yourself, if you play cards, are fair game for a crooked player unless you are forewarned of his methods. In this article Mr. Albelli exposes the clever methods which enable the crooked gambler to cheat without his victim being aware of what is going on.
ONE night last August four men sat down to a congenial game of stud poker in a Saratoga hotel suite, where one pays fifty dollars for a night’s lodging with benefit of bath.
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Little Cars Come First
New cars don’t jump from drafting board to production line. Models of numbers of variations are built, a choice made, and all details studied.
TEN years or so ago when the auto industry first began serious experimentation with the streamline, designers discovered that the drawing board was no longer a reliable instrument of the trade. The compound metal surfaces brought on by long, sweeping fenders, arched roofs and built-in luggage compartments gave off tricky highlights. A car model that appealed in the two-dimensional plane of the sketch might have an entirely different appearance in three-dimensional bulk. Frequently, too, the difference did not become forcibly evident until production jobs were exposed to the critical lights of a salesroom.
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