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Time was when any Hollywood name worthy of a headline always got her divorce in Nevada-preferably Reno. The divorce mills there were the fastest in the nation. A divorce-bound glamour puss had only to take up "residence" for six weeks at a guest ranch and gaming table. But in recent years, Nevada's divorce rate has fallen consistently. In fact, there has been such a drop in tabloid-fodder divorces that the New York Daily News has decided to close down its Reno bureau...
...caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, One Quarter Better Than Anyone Else...
...Angeles area. But the Western Times also intends to reach far-flung subscribers by airmail on the day of issue elsewhere in California, in Oregon and Washington, and possibly Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. On a selective basis, the Times will also invade inland points such as Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Phoenix...
...does any man of God, though his intentions are good and his boons indisputable, have to seek sinners quite so flamboyantly? Nevada's Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno gave his answer when he advised Catholics to boycott places of such "filthy and immoral" entertainment. Crowley took it in stride. Comparing last week's sendoff "bash" with the modest welcoming reception planned for his successor, he ruefully noted: "It is evidently much better to be leaving Las Vegas than to be coming here...
...They say that people like me-people with drive and ambition -that we'll never quit. Bunk. I'm getting out. I'm tired of supporting lawyers and tax collectors." With that, Charles Rolley, 58, stepped down last week as president of Reno's Rolley Co., the nation's biggest maker of suntan lotion (its dollar-green Sea and Ski grosses some $12 million a year). A kinetic promoter, Rolley moved into lotions in 1947 on borrowed money, sold out to Botany Industries, Inc., for $2,000,000 in 1955, stayed on as boss...