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...bestseller list, do guest shots on the Johnny Carson program, tape three TV specials, and make plans to shoot a full-length film, Adam, this winter. In his spare time, he netted a million-dollar deal for four two-week nightclub engagements at the Harrah Club at Lake Tahoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: A Man of Many Selves | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...case of Wheaties or a carton of Life Savers. Nowadays there are certificates, medals, highball glasses, ashtrays, barometers. The earth-shaking event is duly recorded by Golf Digest, which gives away clothes and golfing trips to the winners of its annual Hole-in-One Sweepstakes. Last summer Harrah's Club at Lake Tahoe, Nev., ran its own hole-in-one contest, and the winner had his choice of three prizes: a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, or "His and Hers" Jaguars. Al Reale, a restaurant owner from San Leandro, Calif., was the winner; he chose the Rolls. The U.S. Golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Heaven in the Cup | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned by Bill Harrah-who is also Reno's Ferrari dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 3, 1964 | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...setting themselves up and closing in, Frank Sinatra's 19-year-old son ate a room-service chicken dinner. A professional singer himself for all of seven months, he was traveling with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: There's Nothing to Be Sorry For | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...swinger like his dad, young Frank doesn't drink or gamble. So the merchandised vices of Hurrah's held little interest for him, and he had been spending his free time in his room in one of the motels that Harrah's maintains for performers and guests, watching TV, drinking Cokes, and listening to tapes of his own performances and his father's, whose way with a lyric has long been to him the canon of perfection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: There's Nothing to Be Sorry For | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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