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Oddly, Wynn isn't very interested in gambling. His bingo-parlor-owner father, to whom Steve was reportedly close, was a compulsive gambler. On the eve of his father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J. (with financing from junk bonds...
...DIED. PERCY HEATH, 81, nimble, forceful jazz bassist and the last surviving charter member of the esteemed Modern Jazz Quartet, whose fine arrangements and restrained sounds were sometimes called cool jazz; of bone cancer, in Southampton, N.Y. An accompanist to such greats as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, he provided the low-key backbone of the innovative Modern Jazz Quartet from 1952 until the ensemble finally dissolved...
Right after Thanksgiving, sophomore Wes Cosgriff was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which proceeded to spread throughout his body...
...April 6, he underwent an operation and has since been declared cancer-free...
...RETIRING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 33, six-time Tour de France winner; after this year's Tour ends in July. Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer, told reporters covering the Tour de Georgia, probably his last U.S. event, that he missed his three children and his younger, fitter body, saying: "It's not an old man's race...