Defending a City’s Image
15
Ronald L. Davis, Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System (U. of
Mississippi Press, 2005), 166-167.
John L. Smith, “The Ghost of Ben Siegel,” Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas,
Jack Sheehan, ed. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997), 85 and Robert Lacey, Little
Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1991),
152-156.
“The ‘Inside’ on Bugsy,” Time, 1 July 1947, 59.
19
Quoted in David G. Schwartz, Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition and the
Internet (Reno: University of Nevada press, 2005), 50.
20
“Racketeers Plan Invasion of California,” The Oakland Tribune (January 12, 1950), 1.
Ibid, 48-50; Virgil Peterson, “Gambling—Should It Be Legalized?” Journal o f
Criminal Law and Criminology 40, no. 3 (1949), 259 and The Long Beach Independent, 1
December 1954, 6. The Kefauver Committee concluded that at least $20 billion a year
was bet in legal and illegal gambling, Kefauver Committee Interim Report #2, February
28, 1951, http://www.onewal.com/kef/kef2.html (Accessed December 29, 2009).
22
Kefauver Committee Interim Report #3, May 1, 1951, parts 1 and 2,
http://www.onewal.com/kef3.html and http://www.onewal.com/kef3b.html (accessed
May 22, 2007).
23
Lee Bernstein, The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), 62.
See my “Promoting Post-War Las Vegas: The Live Wire Fund, 1945-1950”
International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference for Academic Disciplines, March
15, 2010, for details on this expansive promotional blitz after World War II.
25
Las Vegas Nights, directed by Ralph Murphy, 1941.
26
27
Helldorado, directed by William Witney, 1946.
See my “‘Never Accorded the Recognition He Deserved’: A1 Freeman, Sands Hotel
Publicist, \952-\912,"' Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51, no. 1 (2008), 33-43.
28
Jimmie Fidler column, Joplin (Mo.) Globe, 11 April 1946, 6 and Bob Thomas column,
Dixon (II.) Evening Telegraph, 12 June 1946, 3.
29
A1 Freeman to Jack Entratter, 29 March 1966, Box 49, Folder 1, Sands Collection,
Special Collections, Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
A1 Freeman to A1 Benedict and Jack Entratter, 7 July 1970, Sands Collection, box 51,
Folder 1.
31
Chamber of Commerce Promotion Committee Meeting Minutes, 16 February 1961,
Sands Collection, Box 47, Folder 9; “Las Vegas Hollers ‘Tilt’ on TV Shows,” Los
Angeles Times, 6 April 1961, C9; and “Protecting a City’s Image: The Death of Las
Vegas Beat, 1961,” Historical Journal o f Film, Radio, and Television (under review).
32
Alan Feldman Interview with author, March 31, 2006.