GREAT BRITAIN: Ich Deal

Ich Dien ("I Serve") is the motto of the Prince of Wales. Last week, between the hours of 3:30 a. m. and dawn, H. R. H. served all comers to the Chilean Casino at Vina del Mar as dealer for the "big" baccarat bank.

Chilean reporters who had told their newspapers that H. R. H. went home and to bed "at about 4 a. m. without playing baccarat." felt foolish when the facts came out. Seasoned baccarat players harked back to 1890 when almost the whole English press raged at the then Prince of...

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