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Died. Jay Hanna ("Dizzy") Dean, 63, Hall of Fame pitcher and language-mangling sportscaster; of a heart attack; in Reno. Son of an Okie sharecropper, Dean was scouted off a Texas sandlot, and won 18 games in 1932, his first full year with the St. Louis Cardinals. Two years later, his 30 victories along with 19 by his brother Paul ("Daffy"), led the Gashouse Gang to the pennant; the brothers won two games apiece as the Cards took the World Series. Compulsively impish, Dean approached the Boston Braves' bench before one game and announced with characteristic corn-pone bravado...
Married. William Fisk Harrah, 62, Nevada's second-ranking casino mogul, after Howard Hughes; and Verna Frank, 29, lately a Reno real estate agent; in Middle Fork Lodge, Idaho. A one-man advertisement for another of Nevada's major industries, Harrah has been divorced five times, Frank once...
...compulsive fisherman, ever searching for the perfect lake or stream, DeVoss was sure he had caught his man when he heard that the country singer was at Orange Lake, Fla. DeVoss was about to pack his lures when he learned that Haggard, bitten by the gambling bug, was in Reno, but would meet him in Bakersfield, Calif., for an interview. Four days of high rolling, however, proved too much for Haggard, who called off the appointment and closeted himself in his Reno hotel penthouse to sleep. When he arose, he found DeVoss encamped at his doorstep. Before long, Haggard headed...
...sight for days at a stretch, then calmly reappear. Aloof from all but a few friends, who predate his fame, and indifferent to publicity, Haggard would rather be jamming all night at J.D.'s, a small club in Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert. Or gambling in Reno, where he dropped $80,000 two weeks ago. Or else engaged in his unending hunt for the perfect fishing hole...
...Reno courtroom last week, U.S. District Court Judge Bruce R. Thompson left absolutely no doubt about his low opinion of the Government's case. "The worst criminal pleading I've ever encountered," he snapped. With that, Thompson dismissed charges of stock manipulation, conspiracy, wire fraud and other offenses brought against Billionaire Howard Hughes and four co-defendants for their part in a successful effort from June 1968 to April 1970 to acquire the foundering Air West airline (now Hughes Air West). Thompson, regarded as a tough but fair-minded judge, found no clear criminal activity in the indictment...