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    * FREEMAN COMPANY pvb/fc/sts At the special Midnight Gala show, the 4,000,000th spectator to see a Sands show will be counted and awarded an unusual prize* In its 3285 days of operation, the Sands has presented just about 4000 show~nights, and on Friday, it is estimated that the 4,000,000th spectator will enter the Copa Room# Danny Thomas, who opened the first Sands show in 1952, and who has returned every Anniversary since, will again star this year as well as the current new star in the Sands family, Joey Bishop* The Sands, in its 9 years of operation, has become the most heavily trafficked resort hotel in the world because of its shows presented by Entratter, president and producer at the resort hotel, with names such as Sinatra, Dean Martin, Red Skelton, Lena Home, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr, Feter Lawford, Ezio Pinza, Tallalulu Bankhead, Van Johnson, Judy Garland, George Gobel, Peter Lind layes and Mary Healy, Joey Bishop, Danny Thomas, Hat King Cole appearing consecutively to draw huge crowds to the resort. Entratter estimated that more than 21,000,000 people have passed thru the Sands in its 9 years of business, that 55% of this number have been ladies averaging 38 years in age, that the average length of stag at the Hotel was 2*8 days, and that Sands customers came from 50 states and 28 foreign countries. Al X reemai^ ANDS HOTEL ?╟≤ LAS VEGAS, NEVADA ?╟≤ DU 2-710<