Word: greenspun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hank Greenspun, 52, freewheeling publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is a New Yorker who arrived in Las Vegas in 1946, became a publicity man for Mobster Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel, later bought 1% of the Desert Inn. In 1950 Greenspun pleaded guilty to running arms to Israel, was fined $10,000, finally had his civil rights restored last year by President Kennedy. He long used the Sun in a vendetta against the late Senators Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy, once wrote a column in which he called McCarthy a "disreputable pervert." In taking on Sawyer, Greenspun would...