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...movie producers and later was convicted of conspiring to fleece wealthy card players in rigged gin-rummy games at the Beverly Hills Friars Club. Roselli, who holds a gift-shop lease at Hughes' Frontier Hotel, boasts that he collected a large finder's fee when the Desert Inn was sold to Hughes and recently dealt himself in on the kickbacks paid by entertainers at the Hughes casinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shootout at the Hughes Corral | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Maheu also maintained that if the Toolco people took over, Hughes' casino licenses might be endangered, since none of the outsiders had been approved by the state gaming-control board. Finally, Maheu got Undersheriff Lloyd Bell to raid Hughes' quarters at the Desert Inn on suspicion of "foul play." The undersheriff found an empty apartment. Maheu's allies openly speculated that Hughes was incapacitated−or dead. There was even one story that Hughes had been lowered on a stretcher the nine stories from his apartment to the ground to start the trip to Paradise Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shootout at the Hughes Corral | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Harvard's sophomore quarterback Eric Crone probably did not sleep very well Friday night in his room at the Lexington Motor Inn...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Champi Returns As Eric Crone | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...Royal Inns, they cannot avoid getting more. Gagosian places his newest motels in the middle of downtown areas -often miles from the main highways, but convenient to theaters and stores. Behind gold-and-white facades are elegantly designed rooms. In addition to free color TV and vibrating bed, Royal Inn rooms typically have white satin bedspreads, deep-pile carpeting, antique-white furniture and a full wall-size mural. Some rooms are equipped with bars, refrigerators and log-burning fireplaces. All Royal Inns have swimming pools, sauna baths and therapy pools at no extra charge. Some, like the year-old Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motels: Riches from Royal Treatment | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

Lately, more and more people have been staying at Earl's. In the first half of 1970, a relatively bad year for the motel industry, profits of Gagosian's 40 Royal Inns in eleven states have tripled, to $389,000. Room occupancy is down 7% nationwide, Royal Inns' is up 6.7% . This month Royal Inns will open four new motels, one a 15-story inn that will be the largest building in Anchorage, Alaska. Nine others are being built in California, Arizona, Georgia and Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motels: Riches from Royal Treatment | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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