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...This," quipped the Ketchikan Republican Club last week, "is the legislature of bingo, booze and boudoirs...
Girls are not all a G.I. gets. In the club foyer stand 34 slot machines that spill out jackpots of up to $1,500. The slot machines are what makes everything else possible. There are bingo games with $1,000 prizes, plus free trips to Hawaii with all expenses paid. At the bar, cocktails and highballs cost 5? each. Steaks served by dimpled Okinawan waitresses come higher: 25?. Once a week, pizza pies are served free; once a month, all drinks are on the house...
...started last June in an abandoned bingo parlor near the beach. Backed...
...William Fisk Harrah was introduced to the business of betting on the right side of the odds back in the early '30s, when he quit U.C.L.A. to help run his father's bingo parlor in Venice, Calif. By 1937. he had moved to Reno. His operation has been growing ever since, and when he spread out to the shores of Lake Tahoe four years ago, he really began to rake...
Personality. Still youthful-looking despite dabs of grey at the temples, slender, amiable Potter Stewart says that his only hobbies are "my home and my family." The family: wife Mary Ann (onetime LIFE researcher), three children aged seven to 13. "We also have a dog named Bingo and an undetermined number of cats," he adds. When colleagues and friends describe Judge Stewart, two words occur again and again: "brilliant" and "unassuming." Of his own appointment to the Supreme Court, Stewart unassumingly said: "In my fondest dreams I never thought that such an honor would come...