THE AMAZING WORLD OF \
JOHN SCARNE. A Personal His
tory (Crowne Publishers, $5).
John Scarne’s reputation as the:
world’s number
gambling is well established..
Gambling casinos of the.„worldl_
know him as The Professor be
cause of his mathematical wiz
ardry—his figures and percent
age tables are The LaW in gamb
ling, professional as wtell as ama-
teur.
The publishers of this book, a I
handsome volume that takes you I
through Scarne’s earliest boy-i
hood days to his recognized emi-i
nence in the gambling world, say ]
in a note that it is “perhaps typi-,i
cal of the fantastic world of gam^
bling that its foremost experl
and authority, its unofficiaj
‘Judge Landis,’ is not a gambleni
And the reason for Scarne’s abl
stinence from the loaded dice!
marked cards and rigged rouletti
wheels? Well, the publishers sajP
that’s part of the story. I
And part of the story it is inH
deed. Scarne got his earliest taste!
of the inside world of the gambj
lers by running errands for • ep
manufacturer of crooked appara-J
tus. He decided then, he tells UM
to make gambling his life worM
A natural bent for calculation^
helped him with his decision.
The book has so many persona
reminensces that to cite any on
of them would not give you thj
entire picture of this geniua
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