WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook
Pat McCarran got a nose job? Kind of.
A bust of the late U.S. senator from Nevada on display in the Clark County Museum needed repair recently. Too many passers-by rubbed his nose, which is a common problem for statues, according to Mark Hall-Patton, museum administrator and regular on the top-rated cable show "Pawn Stars."
McCarran, the namesake for the county airport, was instrumental in passing legislation that doubled commercial air traffic into the valley and helped create the commercial airline industry as it is today.
A placard explaining McCarran's refurbished sniffer states that since the repairs Pat "is looking good." You know, for a guy who died in 1954.
KRISTI JOURDAN
Joe "Moose" Martinez of Mesquite remembers the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb blasts and the aftermath well.
"I wake up shaking and have nightmares," he said about watching the ocean explode into a mushroom cloud that wrecked a fleet of target ships 66 years ago this month.
His old battleship, the USS Arkansas, sank after the atomic bomb test. The crew watched from 10 miles away and was eventually transferred to the USS Rockingham.
"Then when we came back to San Francisco, they wouldn't let us in the bay. It was too hot," he said about radiation levels on the Rockingham. "They sent us back out the Golden Gate, and we had to flush it for several days before we could port at Mare Island to decommission it."
KEITH ROGERS
TWEET OF THE WEEK: @KhloeKardashian (reality TV star, famous for being famous) We are in Vegas and we hear roosters in the next room! LOL I guess this could be normal for Vegas? I don't know ....
BONUS TWEET: @NormanChad (TV poker talker, Washington Post sports columnist) Leaving Las Vegas this morning, I walked to the airport, but took the most circuitous route possible to emulate the cab ride I usually take.
