Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closely approximated bank night in a Turkish harem. But it had never seen anything quite like the uproar that rose last week when Wilbur ("God, how I hated that name when I was a kid") Clark threw open the doors of his sprawling $4,000,000, Bermuda-pink Desert Inn, invited the world to come in and help him get rich...
...green and coral "Casino," financial heart of the whole hotel, that drew the crowds in crushing throngs. They paid only bemused attention to the pink-painted Joshua tree (with gardenias hung from its limbs as presents for the ladies) and the big bar with a nude painting that lighted every hour on the hour. They jammed about the five dice tables, three roulette wheels and four "21" tables. The house had some fevered moments-gamblers from the competing Flamingo took a whirl at breaking the bank, but left in disgust, $60,000 losers. Movie Star Bud Abbott...
Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...
...ninth child of a father who made a fortune in the import-export business in South America, then returned to his pink villa in the little town of Cadegliano overlooking Lake Lugano to settle down to the quiet life. Gian-Carlo's mother, a dynamic woman who took up painting at 60, the guitar at 62, was the main influence in his life. An artistic woman herself, she sought out talent among all of her children, especially lavished her attention on little Gian-Carlo, who seemed to have the most...
Divorced. Audie Murphy, 25, most decorated World War II hero turned cinemactor (Bad Boy) and author (To Hell and Back); by Wanda Hendrix, 21, cinemactress (Ride the Pink Horse); after one stormy year of marriage; in Los Angeles...