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...earned him the nickname "The Old Master," was the most outstanding of that group. However, even as lightweight champion, he could get bouts only by accepting the short end of the purse or by agreeing to take a dive or both. His last major bout was in 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada, against a young white hope named "Battlin'" Nelson. The bout was the first promotion of the notorious Tex Rickard, at that time a local saloon owner. Rickard, who was to become the most successful promoter of the era, put up a purse of $34,000 in gold coins...
Married. Richard C. Pistell, 41, onetime merchant seaman who dropped anchor at Wall Street in 1948 with $50 in his pocket, now captains Goldfield Corp., one of the fastest growing and most aggressive conglomerates (TIME, May 9); and the Marquesa de Portago; both for the third time; in Manhattan...
...topnotch airline experts to manage day-to-day operations, was seldom seen by his 1,081 employees. But under his direction, Frontier flourished. Maytag sent his "Sunliners" into 25 new communities, improved equipment, and increased profits 75%. Last month he sold his interest in Frontier to Nevada's Goldfield Consolidated Mines for $3,000,000. Reason: "I was frustrated...
Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...
This prosperity was almost too good to last. Chicago had scores of policy "wheels" -the circular devices from which winning numbers are drawn. Each "wheel" was named-there was the Erie-Buffalo-Goldfield Wheel, the B & O, the Windy City-Subway-Big Town. Each was served by hundreds of runners and had thousands of loyal customers. Each was a gold mine. The Capone Syndicate set out to consolidate them into one big gold mine...