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Mitchum, Robert (1917-1997)
Robert Mitchum was an actor known for playing in the genres of film noir and westerns. He was born August 6, 1917 as Robert Charles Durman in Bridgeport, Connecticut and died July 1, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California. Mitchum’s arrest for marijuana possession in August 1948 and almost ended his acting career, but Howard Robard Hughes Jr. intervened to defend Mitchum and enlist him for films including His Kind of Woman, where Mitchum co-starred with Jane Russell and Vincent Price.
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Mitrani, Frank, 1931-
Frank Mitrani was a professional photographer who worked for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and started his own photography business, Mitrani Photographs. Mitrani was also a founding member of the Las Vegas Media Group, a group dedicated to preserving the history of Las Vegas and Nevada, which disbanded in 2017.
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"Who Are We?" Las Vegas Media Group Blog. Accessed December 17, 2018. http://lasvegasmediagroup.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
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Moreo, Patrick J.
Pat Moreo was born in the borough of Queens in New York City. At the age of ten his family moved to the Finger Lakes region of New York. He finished grade school and high school in Horseheads, New York. He came to Las Vegas in 1967 and graduated from Universit of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1969. He worked as head of the hotel/culinary department at UNLV.
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Moyer, Donald C. (Donald Carlyle), 1919-
Donald C. Moyer was born on a farm in Central Illinois on April 6, 1919. He served as the president for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1965 to 1968.
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Nartker, Thomas A.
Thomas Nartker was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He attended grade school and high school there, and then attended the University of Dayton. He majored in chemical engineering. By the time Nartker was a sophomore in college, He had already been accepted for graduate study at the University of Tennessee.
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Nasser, Stephen, 1931-
Author, speaker, and Holocaust survivor Stephen Nasser was born in 1931 in Hungary. As a child he was known as Pista, which translates to Stephen in English. He and his family were forced into a ghetto in 1943. They were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau shortly after, where Nasser witnessed the murder of several relatives. He was liberated from a death train on April 30, 1945 by General Patton’s Third Army.
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Neese, Larry
Larry Neese was born on August 26, 1929, in Ulysses, Kansas. Larry married Donna on March 6, 1966, and they had six children: Sandra, Clifford, Weston, Terry, Donnie, and Kerr.
Neese was a contractor for the Nevada Test Site and Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Company (REECo).
Neese passed away on May 8, 2015. Source https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146310549/lawrence-ray-neese
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