"What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"

[George Thompson]

Sometime in late spring or early summer, the NYTimes ran a series of 4 or 5 articles on Los Vagas -- I'm pretty sure that this expression was used, which perhaps is why it was in the mind of the Sun's headline writer.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:12 am
Subject: "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas"

> WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS-- 5,100 Google hits, 345 Google Groups hits
> WHAT HAPPENS IN LAS VEGAS--389 Google hits, 46 Google Groups hits
>
> The speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, is
> being accused
> of buying a $1,500 luxury suite in Las Vegas for only $109. The
> place was
> owned by Caesars Entertainment, a company that was seeking
> approval to build a
> casino in New York.
>
> 13 September 2004, NEW YORK SUN, pg. 9, col. 5:
> Sometimes, it turns out, that happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.
>