Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 55, sometime journalist, scion of Manhattan society's reigning family: his fifth wife, Patricia Murphy Wallace Vanderbilt, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...getting New Englander named Norman Biltz. A Norman Biltz, it is true, was known along the Humboldt River as a big buyer of ranches. A fellow of the same name was remembered as a big real-estate operator around Lake Tahoe. A good many people in Reno were familiar with a Biltz too-a stocky, blue-eyed fellow with iron-grey hair, a Hollywood jacket and Humphrey Bogart gestures who didn't seem to have anything better to do than hang around the Riverside Hotel. But since Biltz doesn't like his name in the paper (and seldom...
...settlement out of court. Tom Mechling is making noises like a man who wants to run for governor of Nevada next year, and he has a core of political strength among the newcomers in the trailer camps and bungalows of Las Vegas and Reno...
...about the other four, but his attempt to dismiss Richardson raised an academic hue & cry far beyond Nevada's borders. At the University of Illinois, dozens of facultymen'signed a petition of protest; other petitions went the rounds at Stanford and the University of California. Meanwhile, four Reno lawyers offered to fight Richardson's case without fee. This week the case was up before the board of regents...
...Alonzo and Harold, decided long ago that volume was the key to casino success. The operator of a smalltime roulette wheel in Modesto, Calif., Smith had to close up shop in the '30s when he "backed the wrong man for district attorney." Ray sent his son Harold to Reno, and soon the young man started Harold's Club with the old family roulette wheel and two battered nickel slot machines. Then Smith and his other son joined Harold...