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    In six months, Jack spent about a million dollars for his shows; turned the plush Sands Hotel into the world?╟╓s richest gambling casino and made cabaret stars out of such unlikely characters as Ezio Pinza, Van .Johnson, Miss Bankhead, and Metropolitan baritone, Robert Merrill.; A humble man who doesn?╟╓t gamble, drink or smoke, Jack Entratter professes to.be awed by the glistening flow from his Pandora?╟╓s Box and says he doesn?╟╓t know how he does it. "I guess I have a feel for the business," he says, "and I?╟╓ve been lucky." jAlong with his unique billings, Jack has alchemized the Sands Hotel into an enchanted desert citadel of the opulence of the fabled Castle of Oz. In the money cage he can hustle up $500,000 cash at any hour day or night, and the flow of tourist gold at the gaming tables has been so profuse that the hotel's entire cost - $5,500,000 - was virtually paid off six months after.the hoors were opened. The Casino cocktail waitresses drive Cadillacs and earn $400 and $500 a week, and an obscure handyman, whose part-time job is washing dirty plastic playing cards, makes $60 a week. Hotel guests are transported to and from their rooms in electric trams; the main bar is 108 feet long and will accommodate 520 tipplers at one ^tanding^ Wei4endopf^^driW'|!^^|Mi^d??ahd;-^??iJaguar^,?╜ ^AS00 * *more-