Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...furore died, gambling ran on as usual. At Reno's big Harold's Club, 57-year-old Manager Raymond Smith went on elbowing hospitably through crowds, calling "Why, hello there, friends!" and occasionally doubling bets...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who separated from her husband, Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, three weeks before she came into an inheritance of some $4,700,000, entrained for Reno's divorce mill, was caught with her guard down by an alert photographer en route...
Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno...
...week's end the mayor ended all the hopeful cheering by announcing his considered decision-the curfew would stand in New York. And everywhere else-in Reno, where gambling houses had stayed open all night, in Chicago. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami-night spots decided to observe it. In the comparative calm which followed this reluctant acceptance, a Detroit bartender gave the new rule a name. "First we had the race tracks closed," he said. "Then we had the brown out and now we've got the Byrne...