The Press: D/ges/ Digested

Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'—and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted, 'There's my eleven!' grabbed her winnings...

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