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...very noses of the FBI. Portlanders gasped with dismay and wondered how it could have happened. The taciturn men of the FBI offered only an embarrassed, partial explanation-they had seen Long drive off with the carpenter, feared they would be spotted if they followed them into the wide-open countryside, left Long uncovered from midnight...
...Driver Parsons had placed second in the big race last year, and his Wynn's Special, with its new high-compression (13 to 1) Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine, had performed beautifully during the tryouts. Now the threadlike slit in the engine block threatened to crack his hopes wide-open. But heavy-footed Johnnie Parsons had no thought of withdrawing on that account...
Actress Mae West announced that she would build and personally operate, in wide-open Las Vegas, Nev., a $1,000,000 joint to be called Mae West's Diamond Lil Casino and Restaurant...
...Sundowners, mostly shot in the spectacular wide-open spaces around Amarillo and Canyon, Texas, spins a conventional story in scenes that are not too incredible: Sterling and young Barrymore are trying to run an honest ranch, but the cattle rustlers won't let them. Out of the West rides their long-lost black sheep brother, Kid Wichita (Robert Preston), a killer with an all-round mean reputation. Before law & order can be restored, various good & bad actors are plugged through the heart, shot in the back, or, like Barrymore, simply wounded. The girl (Cathy Downs) suffers through every...
Nevada's wide-open Las Vegas (pop. 26,000) had seen a lot of memorable gambling joints-the opening of the late "Bugsy" Siegel's flamboyant Flamingo in 1946 had closely approximated bank night in a Turkish harem. But it had never seen anything quite like the uproar that rose last week when Wilbur ("God, how I hated that name when I was a kid") Clark threw open the doors of his sprawling $4,000,000, Bermuda-pink Desert Inn, invited the world to come in and help him get rich...