Word: harrah
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Writer Ambrose Bierce once observed that "the gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." Yet in today's skittish economic climate, most businessmen can only view with envy the profitable growth of the gaming empire headed by William Fisk Harrah, 63. It includes two glossy Nevada casinos-one in Reno, one in Lake Tahoe-along with two hotels containing 19 food-service areas and 18 cocktail bars. In the fiscal year ended in June, Harrah's Inc. of Reno, one of two gambling operations listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
Married. William Fisk Harrah, 62, Nevada's second-ranking casino mogul, after Howard Hughes; and Verna Frank, 29, lately a Reno real estate agent; in Middle Fork Lodge, Idaho. A one-man advertisement for another of Nevada's major industries, Harrah has been divorced five times, Frank once...
Even though it was held in the Convention Center at Reno's Harrah's Hotel, it was a small party by show-biz standards. But as bar mitzvahs go, it was everything a 13-year-old boy could ask for-tables laden with Jewish delicacies; $10,000 in savings bonds, as well as expensive doodads from 400 admiring guests. It was all for Mark Sidney Davis, the adopted son of Actress May Britt and black Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., who was converted to Judaism in 1954. Sammy toasted May and his present wife, Altovise, a singer, then presented...
Married. William Harrah, 61, gambling impresario who parlayed a bingo parlor into Nevada casinos (Harrah's Reno and Lake Tahoe clubs), second in winnings only to those of Howard Hughes; and Roxana Carlson, 32, a model; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his Lake Tahoe estate...
Married. Bill Harrah, 58, Nevada gambling chieftain (Harrah's Clubs, Rsno and Lake Tahoe), who was the state's largest casino operator until Howard Hughes decided to buy in; and Mary Burger, 30, physical culturist; he for the fourth time (his four-month marriage to Singer Bobbie Gentry ended in divorce in April), she for the first; in a Baptist ceremony in Reno...