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...Over Reno's police radio one afternoon last week came a routine alarm: "Housebreak at Mt. Rose and Forest." Within minutes, the cops were pulling up at a massive, castlelike mansion owned by La Verne Redfield, 54, an obscure stock and real-estate operator who was locally known to be wealthy and somewhat eccentric. Events quickly proved that he was all of that and then some...
Redfield turned out to be an Idaho native who made most of his money in Los Angeles oil stocks, moved in 1935 to Reno, where he lives parsimoniously except for frequent flings at roulette. He does his own shopping with a market basket, dresses in faded blue jeans and a lumberjack shirt...
Joiner. In Reno, after quitting as manager of a meat packing firm because "Office of Price Stabilization regulations make a profit impossible," M. A. ("Tiny") Fairchild got a new job as foods section chief of the OPS district office...
...there are weak points in the Republican ranks, too. In Nevada, long-winded George ("Molly") Malone, who spoke more words on the Senate floor last year than any other member, will have to do some fast talking to hold his seat. His probable opponent: Alan Bible, a handsome Reno lawyer and protege of Democratic Senator Pat McCarran...
Weathered In. In Reno, when his sedan stalled in a snowdrift, Robert Gibbs hopped out, trampled the hood down to the engine, ripped off the ventilator flaps, pulled off the door handles, smashed all the windows, walked away...