Young Woman Turns "Bookie"
Eminent in an unusual profession for a woman, is fuir-haired Kate Farrel, one of Syuney's most publicised women bookmakers oi the S.P. (starting price, and illegal) variety. Kate's only 25, pretty, aird crisp-voiced, and she knows just why puntmg doesn't pay. | Nevertheless, Kate has been ] charged and fined five times for I illegal befcting during the last two I years, and she's beginning to be | discouraged. She's gomg to turn j the game in, merely becaure of her I disappointment in the cpen-\ Iheartedness of the pQlice departj ment. She says : i "If I didn't think S.P. was , honest I wouldn't have taken uo {the business. But I a.sk y^u, if h jfellow in his right mina wants tc take a chance on losing his mcney, i who am I to moralise to teil him to keep it and buy miik for his kids?"
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 April 1948, Page 7
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148Young Woman Turns "Bookie" Chronicle (Levin), 7 April 1948, Page 7
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