Resorts: Popcorn Playpen

Who said Atlantic City was a bore? Eddie Fisher was packing them in at the 500 Club, Sarah Vaughan was singing her heart out at Le Bistro, Lyndon Johnson's two-night stand was an S.R.O. draw at Convention Hall. The Steel Pier featured Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle and The Diving Horse. And over at the Globe Theater, the management proudly presented "Her Sexcellency" Sally Rand in Person. To the surprise of those who thought Strip per Sally had gone out with bathtub gin, she seemed to have changed hardly at all. For that...

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