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Question of the Day - 21 June 2012

Q:
Can you write a mini bio on Hank Greenspun?
A:

We can do better than that! Hank Greenspun, who died in 1989, was a controversial media mogul who founded local CBS affiliate KLAS-TV and in 1950 purchased what is now the Las Vegas Sun. He's one of the featured subjects in A.D. Hopkin's award winning biography collection, The First 100: Portraits of the Men and Women Who Shaped Las Vegas so, rather than reinvent the wheel, here's a link to Greenspun's 3-page bio from that book, which also features everyone from Bob Stupak to Sen. Harry Reid, Bugsy Siegel to Steve Wynn, Benny Binion to Pat McCarran, and Howard Hughes to Frank Sinatra, not to mention scores of unsung heroes and heroines you may or may not have heard of, but whose stories are sure to fascinate. Take it away, A.D....

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