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...Horace Heidt(Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC), and another stageful of amateurs...
...Heidt kept on counting out the bills-150 of them. When he had finished, he took out an envelope and wrote a bill of sale on the back of it. Contratto signed it; Heidt hired him as his manager. In a year, the ballroom netted a profit equal to the sale price...
...Easy Way. In February 1945, Heidt bought a faltering restaurant in Beverly Hills for $65,000. A month later he bought a glorified auto court (the Lone Palm Hotel) in Palm Springs for $225,000. (Last fortnight he refused to sell...
Last May. Still moving on and up Heidt bought the Nevada Biltmore Hotel in Las Vegas for $500,000. Like most Las Vegas hotels, it had hot & cold gambling. Heidt lost more than $6,000 a night until he discovered that he was playing against loaded dice and marked cards (he now displays them in his home labeled: "We learned the hard way"). Then he hired a professional to run the casino, and the losses stopped...
After buying a new place, Heidt hunts down the most popular managers, bartenders, waiters, cooks, etc. in the neighborhood and hires them. Then he personally rings doorbells in the district and asks people if they have tried his new place...