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    8 He plays a sort of reckless hand In choosing the Sands chorines* He flew into Los,Angeles one recent afternoon, arranged with agents to model a dozen girls and blithely said: "I'll take the first,, third and ninth girls." "But Mr, Entratter," the bookers protested, "the ones you picked can't dance so good," Jack laughed. "I don't care if they never dance., They're beautiful and I want beauty." Jack himself is an unusually modest man who, because of his in- formal clothes (he usually wears open-collared blue shirts and no coat), is frequently mistaken for one of the establishment's 526 hired hands. The constant pressure and the seemingly casual but nerve-frazzling juggling of huge sums occasionally unsteadies his big frame and causes his tiny white-haired mother to worry so much that she stays awake - often until 4 or 5 a.m. - until he comes home, and gently scolds him for being out so late. Nothing is apt to slow him down, though, as long as he can put the big names in lights, and as long as some airline stewardesses can still look down on the town as their planes glide in and call out impishly: "It's Vegas, folks. Please fasten your money belts." * * * * 1