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Last week there was a good reason: a lot of the hotelmen-gamblers were rolling snake eyes. Less than five months after it opened, the 250 room, $5 million Royal Nevada was losing so much money that it was being taken over by the Desert Inn, a comparative oldtimer. The veteran management of the Flamingo hotel was moving in to rescue the shaky $8,000,000 Riviera. The $3,000,000 Moulin Rouge, built to lure in Negroes, had to be reorganized. Last week the well-established Sands took over the three-month-old, $4,000,000 Dunes...
...eighth river was the Danube, and the ninth the Inn. Johnston went all the way-through Bavaria into Austria and over the Brenner Pass to meet the U.S. Fifth Army, stumbling up from Italy. "Do you gentlemen realize," said the wiry American colonel who led the last advance, "that only three soldiers in history have ever forced the Brenner? Hannibal, Napoleon...
...Royal Free Hospital on Gray's Inn Road set a notable precedent only four years after its opening in 1828: it became the first hospital in London to accept patients with infectious diseases, at a time when other hospitals still shunned them. But last week the Royal Free Hospital was closed on account of illness. The illness: an infectious disease, which had crippled its staff...
...most recent action proving her words is the purchase of Palm Springs' $2,000,000 Desert Inn (TIME, July 25). She believes that "Palm Springs is growing like Florida grew, is ripe for ... development," expects to build "a miniature Rockefeller Center" around the inn that will include small department stores, a theater, possibly a nightclub...
...Hollywood, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies revealed that she has bought the famed Desert Inn in Palm Springs, Calif, for $2,000,000, expects to spend a lot more for renovations and expansions: "I plan to develop it into a miniature Rockefeller Center...