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...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Gene Tierney and Vincent Price, in Dragonwyck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon bring Madame Curie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Without Reservations, starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Cummings, opens the Theater's 13th season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Misunderstood Man | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Plungers & Necklines. Triumphantly, last week, he opened for business. Thousands of suckers who had queued up at shoreside water-taxi landings stood shoulder to shoulder all night long on the Lux's casino deck. The ship's bingo corner, its 14 crap tables, 150 slot machines, twelve roulette wheels, five poker games, were busy until dawn. Order was kept by 26 polite, tough "masters-at-arms," i.e., seafaring bouncers. A band played and lush ladies with plunging necklines wandered about selling cigarets. Tony expansively predicted that nobody could touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Misunderstood Man | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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