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...private files. Soon after, while his servants in Nevada were in a state of confusion over his sudden departure, someone entered Hughes' 9th-floor penthouse in the Desert Inn and removed sheaves of his personal memos. Most of them ended up in the hands of Hank Greenspun, editor and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. He published some of them and showed others to a few journalists writing about Hughes. Most of the memos remain secreted by Greenspun...
...scourge of Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun...
Though the publisher wins most of those lawsuits, his morning daily seems to embody an old frontier reflex: shoot first and ask questions later. While Greenspun guns down local pols in his front-page column, "Where I Stand," his 25 reporters are out digging up screaming exposés in The Front Page tradition. Just before last fall's elections, the paper exposed as a fraud the mail-order gold-and-silver business of Gubernatorial Candidate James Ray Houston (he lost). Last week the Sun revealed how Greenspun and one of his reporters tracked down the lookout...
Green Safe. People also come to Nevada to steal from Greenspun. In 1971 he told a White House aide that he knew about a $100,000 Nixon campaign contribution from Howard Hughes. Not long after, the White House plumbers apparently tried to crack the green Meilink safe in Greenspun's office. After that break-in was disclosed in the Nixon tape transcripts last year, Greenspun became the only journalist to testify before the Senate Watergate committee. The object of the breakin, he theorizes, was probably a sheaf of handwritten memos from Howard Hughes to a subordinate. Yet Greenspun mysteriously...
...Vegans perceive Greenspun as something of a menace himself. His ad hominem attacks offend some readers. Others recall his 1940s public relations work for "Bugsy" Siegel's Flamingo Hotel and wonder if Greenspun is still friendly with local mobsters. "That's the goddamnedest, most fabricated lie," he says, and points as proof to his occasional diatribes against organized crime. Adds Greenspun: "When you live in this town, you're rubbing shoulders with every facet of society...