Memory
An Impromptu Lecture
One of the janitors at the Frick laboratory turned a conversation [with Eyring] to the odds in the daily double. Eyring was eager to prove, for mainly moral reasons, that it was almost a waste of money to bet. The janitor was very interested and gathered his fellow janitors for an impromptu lecture on the probability of gambling. Unfortunately, the numbers refused to behave, and Eyring was left in a frantic effort to repair the damage done to the janitors, who were convinced that the great professor had come up with better than even-money odds.