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Titanic and The Brain

Ridiculous Crime

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Is There a Con Artist?

Arnold the brain Ross Dean was a double inspiration, not only for boardwalk guys and dolls but also for Titanic Thompson. Rothstein had this nickname, The Brain, because he basically had a calculator for a brain. He could memorize angles of any con he'd been a part of. In 1915, three years after Titanic Thompson first earned his nickname, either on a ocean liner or a pool hall in Joplin, Missouri,. We don't know.

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