Word: las
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thorpe, 47, handsome Hollywood gynecologist whose 1935 divorce from Cinemactress Mary Astor heralded the famed courtroom squabble over custody of their child (for three weeks U.S. tabloids went tantivy after her two-volume diary, rich in purple patches); and Virginia Bancroft Mitchell, 25; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
...week's end, the philosophical Foreign Minister took a dozen other foreign ministers to the Hipódromo de las Américas, Mexico's horse track backed by U.S. expatriate "Sell 'em" Ben Smith and President Manuel Avila Camacho's late brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Result: Host Padilla, Colombia's Foreign Minister Alberto Lleras Camargo, Venezuela's Carraciolo Parra-Perez each lost 50 pesos on a long shot. Nicaragua's Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa won 500 pesos ($103) on two races...
Across the border, warned Congressman Gonzalez, Argentina looked like a country already at war. The railroad to Zapala carried nothing but soldiers and supplies. A network of new military roads led threateningly toward Chile. At Las Lajas, near the frontier, were barracks for an entire division. The region was teeming with ski troops, mountain artillery and airplanes. The local inhabitants were kept in alarm by officially inspired rumors that Chile was about to attack Argentina. This, said Congressman Gonzalez, was the familiar Hitler technique of pretending to be a victim in order to victimize...
Married. Nackey Elizabeth Scripps, 20, younger daughter of the late news-magnate Robert Paine Scripps; and George Gallowhur, 38, enterprising chemical manufacturer (Skol, Skat, etc. - TIME, Sept. 6, 1943); in Las Vegas...