Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Space. One day in 1954, a two-paragraph item in the San Francisco Chronicle caught Alec Cushing's eye. Reno had bid for the Olympic Games. Cushing had only one chair lift at Squaw then, but he decided to apply too. "I had no more interest in getting the games than the man in the moon," he admits. "It was just a way of getting some newspaper space." The space he got in West Coast papers brought a flood of encouraging letters, made up Cushing's mind: "When I got letters from all those people saying what...
Harry Bridges, Australian-born West Coast longshore boss, flew into Reno from San Francisco last week with his companion and registered at the Mapes Hotel as "Mr. & Mrs. Harry Bridges"-prematurely, as it turned out. For one thing, it was too late in the day for even a quick Nevada wedding. For another, as besieging newspapermen pointed out when Bridges jauntily introduced them to his bride-to-be next morning, the archaic, unchallenged Nevada law forbade it. The future and third Mrs. Bridges, 35-year-old Noriko Sawada, a dainty, dignified San Francisco law secretary, is a Nisei...
Married. Harry Bridges, 57, boss of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; and Noriko Sawada, 35, Nisei secretary; after difficulty with a Nevada miscegenation law; in Reno (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Divorced. Wanda Hendrix, 30, sometime movie starlet (Miss Tatlock's Millions, Prince of Foxes); by James Langford Stack Jr., 42, rich Nevada sport; after four years of marriage; in Reno...
Nevada: Mossback Republican George W. Malone, 68, lost his third-term race to middle-of-the-road Democrat Howard W. Cannon, 46, Las Vegas city attorney for ten years, less on political grounds than because Las Vegans, who recently surpassed Reno in population, were peeved because all three Nevadans in Congress were from Reno...