Word: flamingos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years were good to him. He cornered the $500,000-a-day California bookie business, set up a "milk run" smuggling Mexican heroin into California. In 1946 he opened the swanky $6,000,000 Flamingo Club in Las Vegas. He made the acquaintance of sultry, dark-haired Virginia Hill, 30, who was famed for parties that dazzled even Hollywood. The story was that thrice-married Virginia had a Brooklyn patron, a gang overlord who paid her handsomely to stay out of New York. Bugsy moved his shoes and suits over to Virginia's house...
...lately things had begun to go sour. The Flamingo lost money. From New York headquarters, the boys arrived to talk to Bugsy. A couple of hoods were cut down in the old '20s gangland style. Competition was increasing. The underworld was migrating eagerly into Southern California...
...named Faultless-and it was just possible that the Kentuckians were keeping quiet because they knew they had a good thing. Big, brown Faultless was born within 70 miles of Derbyville. on Calumet Farm's 1,038 fat acres. In March he won Florida's $50,000 Flamingo Stakes with ease; last week, he made three rivals look silly in a warm-up at nearby Keeneland...
...four of the eight sides he is joined by alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges and the combination of these two is a happy one. Hodges' playing also effectively balances melody and technique. The tunes they play, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street," "Flamingo," "Night And Day," and "Time On My Hands," are melodic, medium-paced, and moody, just right for their combined talents...
Zita Miller, Park Avenue Glamor girl loudly touted as an authoress before she began writing her first book-something sexy about a girl named Flamingo Duval (TIME, April 1)-nearly had to start her career all over again at the age of 19. She 1) finished the book, 2) lost 16 chapters of the manuscript. They turned up a few days later in one of the very best restaurants...