The American Legion Magazine [Volume 67, No. 5 (November 1959)]
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SHOP AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD LIQUOR STORE CALVERT RESERVE AND LORD CALVERT, AMERICAN BLENDED WHISKEYS— BOTH 86 PROOF , 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. © 1959 CALVERT DISTILLERS COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY . His extraordinary book shows you THE SECRETS OF WINNING POKER Be the first in your crowd to get his runa\vay hest-seller that ahnost takes the ganihle out of poker. The first seven editions were sokl out as soon as the ink ^vas dry. An eighth printing has just heen delivered and a ninth is on press. TiiK Hehbedt O. Yaudley book startfil celling like wildfire when a small frac- HOW WOULD YOU PLAY lion of it appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. THESE DRAW POKER HANDS? Your best friends won't tell you what's in The game is Straight Draw — it — and when you've read it you won't nothing wild. Jacks or better to tell them. open. There are 7 players It's called The Education of a Poker Plaveh. And it's a priceless education. In it Yardley tells the secrets of his systems for ONE winning at all the usual (and many of the i rare) kinds of Draw and Stud Poker. BIG PAIR "Never open on two small pair — never" "Fold them." Yardley says. He's talking about Straight Draw, nothing wild, 7 players. FOUR CARD^ ph by OLLIE ATKINS "It's twelve to one you won't make a Full House. If somebody else opens, don't stay. FLUSH About HERBERT O. YARDLEY Anyone who stays on two small pair should Yardley's mastery of the infinite subtleties of have his head examined. You fold — or you poker made him just the kind of agile thinker bluff by raising before the draw, standing whom you would expect to crack a wartime Japa- pat, then betting." i THREE OF nese code (he did) and to write tlie classic book on codes, cipliers and spies (he did: The Ameri- In the same specific way Yardley looks A KIND can Black Chantber) o\er your shoulder at every hand and tells The illustrations are from "Because he plays such a tight game of poker," you exactly when to open, and when to pass the SATURDAY EVE.S'ING POST'S brilliant excerpt says The Saturday Evening Post, "Yardley lias (even though you ha\ e openers , from Yardley's book. ) when to been dubbed 'Old .Adhesive' by his friends. Aher © C.P.C. call or stay, when to bluff, when to raise. his retirement (as a cryptanalyst ) Yardley made a when to be cautious, when to be brazenly scientific study of poker in all its variations, thus bold. And when to meekly fold. reinforcing his fifty years ol experience as a player. \ ou watch Jake Mo5e-> lo^e ten trunks full of Now he has fold all in The Education of a He shows you all this by means of actual sample shoes—and you profit from his mis- Poker Player." sample hands which he plays out for you take. You see how good and bad poker play- and analyzes. And you learn how to play Here's it is ers from the old west to China played their how good with the odds instead of against them. hands—and how they sliould've played them. (ttie first tribute to Yardley's book) How to develop not only a Tlie Neiv York Herald Trib- Send for your copy today — at no risk poker-face but a poker head une Book Review says, '"It should be part of every fa- Yardley's book could easily turn a steady Yardley tells you how to study and '"read" ther's investment portfolio for loser into a steady winner. With its specific — the other players — watching and analyzing his son or for himself. What advice and its great stories out of Yardley's Goren and Vaiulerbilt have their mannerisms, learning their weaknesses own experience, it amounts to a professional done for the bridge player, and their strengths. He makes you a master education in the theory and practice of win- Yardley has now done for that strategist at poker's psychological war. ning — and a post-graduate course in the submerged four-fifths of .Amer- ican He tells you wonderful salty stories (prob- art of the bluff. manhood that plays poker. ably not for your Aunt Hermine) He has given us dignity, wis- out of his Send for your today. Get hold of it copy dom and pliilosophy." own poker experience around the world — before the others in your crowd. Send no — Tiii.oooRE H. White. stories that sharpen your poker sense. money. When the mailman brings your copy, You '"sit in" on the game in which the corn read it, enjoy it, study it for three full weeks To Your Booh:<elIer. or grower '"Bones" Alverson bet his farm against on the house. If you don't actually win several PA, a circus tent show at Five-Card Draw Deuces times the small cost of the book in your next SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Inc., Dept. 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. Wild — and won under the unfortunate cir- few poker sessions, simply return the book I'm from Missouri want to cumstance of no longer and be shown. being alive at the within three weeks and pay nothing. Other- So .send me a copy of Herbert O. Yardley's new book, the education of a poker player. time. (After which Yardley gives you a bril- wise we'll bill y ou $3.95 plus postage as pay- If I don't win .several times the price of the liant analysis of how to play your cards at ment in full. Simon and Schuster, Publishers, book in my next few poker sessions, I'll send the book back within three weeks and pay Five-Card Draw Deuces Wild.) Dept. PA. 630 Fifth Avenue. New York City. nothing. Otherwise. I will remit only $3.95 plus a few cents postage as payment in full. THIS IS HOW YARDLEY WOULD PLAY HANDS IN PANEL ABOVE ,, jBd spuEjs auoamos ssaiun '}aq puB OA!} .nBjp 'pasiBj aABt( no,'; ..•noX 5SUIB3B .uBjp jqaiui JajJB S.tBJS J3,SB[d IBUOISEODO UB JI oqa sjaABid jno oj 8Aup juE.tt ., }! aifBtu l.uop no^ 3uo-oj-aAiaAi} puEt( jno.^ JO ssaipjBaaj jaq 'ssiaano noA asiBj 'as-jo.* .lo sauifj s.ie a.iB sppo aqx iJI oj MBjp Atj.M aq JI OAH ME.ip 'auo jo 'fspjBa SMjqj City Zone. , .State .met ji 'J3A3A\0H 3tiuiui.ii jo jtiaiE.i)s apisui UB joj sv sptia OAij SAiBjp aq JI tuiti qjt.u aajqj 9jns itnajd a.i,no.? asnEoaq -tiBD noA" moq }E uado 'juStBjjs pjB3-jnoj AiBjp 'spjBs aajqj s.iaBjp .lauado aqj SAVE POSTAGE. 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The Champagne of Bottle Beer THE AMERICAN LEGION FOUR DECADES 1919.19590F DEDICATED SERVICE Vol. 67, No. 5; Nov. 1959 THE AMERICAN presents LEGION MAGAZINE JIMMY DEMARET Contents for November 1959 announcing Cover by Donato Leo THE MEN WHO LED THE ALLIES TO VICTORY IN WORLD WAR ONE. 15 THE NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION ALL-STAR by Robert B. Pitkin 16 CONCERNING MARTIN B. McKNEALLY. THEY ARE STILL IN SIBERIA by Romolo Tagliabue as told to NinoLoBello 18 GOLF WE DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT THIS ASPECT OF SOVIET LIFE. THEY SNATCHED A MIG by Chester 0. Campbell 20 AN IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE TO THE HISTORY OF THE KOREAN WAR. THE ARMY'S 28 LANGUAGES by John Howard 22 HOW STRATEGIC PEOPLE ARE BEING GIVEN THE GIFT OF TONGUES. DETROIT 1980 by James C. Jones 24 THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY THAN THE NEW LINE OF CARS. ABC'S OF DUCK HUNTING by George Laycock 26 SOME HELPFUL HINTS FOR THOSE WHO LIKE ROAST WILD DUCK.