Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FLORENCE WHITE Reno...
...wanting to be a regent, but Coach Sheeketski did, A onetime Notre Dame star halfback (1931-32), he had gone on to coaching at Holy Cross, served with the FBI during World War II, arrived at Nevada in 1947. There he did well. He got enough money from the Reno Downtown Boosters Club to attract some first-rate players, was able to launch Nevada into big-time football...
...Senators learned, RFC had lent $975,000 to the Mapes Hotel in Reno, which drew 30% to 40% of its income from a thriving twelfth-floor gambling casino called "The Sky Room." The casino operators, said Committee Chairman William Fulbright last week, were "lawbreakers and thugs." The casino's boss is Lou Wertheimer of the gambling Detroit Wertheimers...
Married. Georges Simenon, 47, prolific (more than 350 books) Belgian-born French novelist now living in California; and Denise Ouimet, 30, his secretary; he for the second time; in Reno, the day after his divorce (after 27 years of marriage, one son) from Regine Simenon...
...encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being "nibbled to death" by "Prussian Pentagon policies...