HARRY WALD, 71, EX-PRESIDENT OF CAESARS PALACE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Former Caesars Palace Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment. Caesars is located on the west side of the Strip, between the Bellagio and the Mirage. president Harry Wald, who helped guide the Strip resort to become one of the most successful in the gaming industry, died Tuesday at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 71. Wald, who served in the Army during World War II, will be buried with full military honors in services today at Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery, 420 acres (170 hectares), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; est. 1864. More than 60,000 American war dead, as well as notables including Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, Gen. John J. . Born in Germany, Wald escaped Nazi persecution and fled to the United States at the age of 14. He came to Las Vegas in the early 1960s after meeting Caesars developer Jay Sarno in San Francisco. He began as project manager and eventually took over as president of the resort. ``Harry had one really big love affair in his life and that was Caesars Palace,'' said Burton Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , who worked with Wald at the resort for a number of years. ``It was his very being morning, noon and night
Morning, Noon and Night is a 1995 novel by Sidney Sheldon. . I guess he was the epitome of the consummate hotel-casino man.'' Wald brought a string of sports events to the resort, with Caesars Palace hosting major tennis tournaments, automobile races and championship boxing matches. He continued his military service and in 1973 was named brigadier general of the Nevada Army National Guard The Nevada National Guard is one of the 54 members (50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia) of the United States National Guard, an integral part of this nation’s reserve forces. . ``He was an excellent soldier and did an outstanding job for the Guard,'' O'Callaghan said. ``But not only was he a good soldier and a great American, he really loved the Silver State. Even after he left the gaming industry, he continued to think and bring ideas to the table that would help promote Las Vegas.'' |
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