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Image Problem. Aside from TV, Wolff has committed her to a few campus and concert appearances in the States and a stand at Harrah's club at Lake Tahoe, all of which should keep her 1970 income at the $1,000,000 level to which she has become accustomed. She is fed up with period movies like Chips ("I have nothing to do with 1924, really") and other musicals. Not that either picture was such a box-office smash that Hollywood is pressing her to do another of that genre. Right now, Pet says, she is looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And the Pet Goes On | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

Married. Bobbie Gentry, 27, the lissome singer who two years ago had millions wondering what Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge; and William Harrah, 58, owner of Nevada's biggest gambling casino, Harrah's Club at Reno and Lake Tahoe; he for the third time; in a Presbyterian ceremony in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...tough," he roars). Snarr got into billboards because his father, a potato farmer, was too poor to send him to college. By designing weirdly shaped signs that visually jolted motorists, he earned his way through two years of Brigham Young University, then snagged a $400,000 sign contract from Harrah's casinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: How to Remove Billboards | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...tennis, an ice-skating rink, a movie theater, a vast bowling alley and a poolroom. Hughes recently paid an estimated $17 million for the Strip's 524-room Landmark Hotel, giving him six hotels (and their casinos) worth $80 million. That moved him into second place after William Harrah in the high-stakes Monopoly game for gambling houses now going on in Nevada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Midway on the Strip | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...sleek, maroon 1966 Duesenberg four-door sedan (body by Ghia), $8,000 for a bright blue 1924 Amilcar three-place sport model CGS 3, and $15,500 for a 1916 Biddie Victoria touring car. Bidding right along with Resnick was the biggest old-car buff of all, William Harrah, owner of Nevada's Harrah's gambling clubs and the world's largest antique-auto collection (1,300 cars). Harrah kept his bids modest, acquired only four autos. "Exotic, glamorous cars are going for very high prices," Harrah noted, "run-of-the-mill stuff for very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: Going Old | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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