Barbara Greenspun remembers 1987: Urgent call came from Flamingo
Friday, March 23, 2001 | 10:05 a.m.
How well I remember the night Hank drove in a vicious sand storm from Las Vegas to Boulder City, where we lived at the time. He had been working late at the Flamingo. Hardly had he arrived when an urgent call came from Dick Chappell, the hotel manager. Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel had been killed and Dick had been instructed to open a safe in the penthouse. He wanted Hank there to confirm the safe's contents.
In the column of July 17, 1987, reprinted above, Hank recounted the story. Both he and Dick Chappell were so naive about the consequences of opening the safe. In retrospect, Hank once said it was most probably one of the stupidest things he ever did.
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