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...attractive, like hiring comely college girls as blackjack dealers. But the company's biggest edge is sound management. Harrah's 6,500 employees are organized into 42 departments, which are administered by carefully recruited professional managers. Experts have compiled operational manuals for every job from busboy to croupier, and even fingerprints on glass doors are quickly wiped away by ever-alert employees. Harrah is now working on plans to expand his casinos and hotels at a cost of $60 million-to be provided by his eternally optimistic patrons...
Said one exhausted croupier when it was all over: "Praise Allah, they didn't stay for a thousand and one nights...
...Said a croupier: "They never cracked a smile...
...work there, so he had placed all his belongings in the trunk of his 1963 Chevrolet and was heading west. As the sun rose we pulled into Reno, where Ed wanted to stop for a while to check out the possibilities of getting a job as a croupier in one of the casinos. He went into a gas station rest room, changed from his wrinkled shirt and stained Levis into a nice fresh outfit, and while I wandered through the downtown streets, he went into two or three places to talk with the managers. About an hour later...
Morgan, who refused to gamble there for what he regarded as a piddling 12,000 francs top. But last week the wife of an Italian film producer casually threw away a small fortune at roulette; when the croupier tried to stop her from betting above the current 20,000-franc limit, she scornfully referred him to another table for approval...