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'. '�'•. association, former brought the tanned, lean tu#ta tdr•
Miami Beach 37 years ago. Years
• ' president of Associated Resort Ho- ,. L.,
tele and one of the original mans- later, ;32 utilllcni.Worth of hotels • �._,- �, s,
bets of the Miami Beach Tourist kept him here. FEB 1 1 1977 ; •:';«
, • Development Authority, died at his ENOWN lay friends and fowl.wl. Morris Ltinsbur t .� ''
home Thursday of a heart attack. aces as a wen.dressed dapper man. 011.'4. Make ___ '''
He Throughout out Na career all a ho60. tel Lansburgh spoke loudly with a Gp �"�' R
•deep voice — the result of a child-
t operator and owner, Lansburgh hood accident that greatly reduced Nerved 44 months of a one-, year+
had interests in several Beach ha
hearing in hie right ear. fall sentence.
• tels, including the Eden Roc, Sank Associates said he could be ruth- . Lansburgh was tal'.lds% od
4 ; Saud, Chown, Saxony' and Casa less, demanding, rude and exaaper- telephone when he coils, .,.;;i
f i Blanca, as well as hotel' in Las ating. But they also aald he eosin' Thursdayz slid was -.%
Ve=nd the Dominican Republic. one of his eons,who calied firn-
I�naburgh, who aid "you have . witty,
aeneroae� cha�min8 title units and Lanabut...'s '::
• to take a few calculated risk in ,. • , , .ex. )t w#Ft I.Bns I ,. s
TWA wojta”wit 2w. . a t. fa- -'t* tr. .fib inLp >..1 attack. . . -. ..r..
1 ; ther or the a sour • a �s '• •• • - •
pacisag the protizot�ers ;'•�r�,:• _ .: , r, `
prominent ppromoter of talent on travel retest
world" said led
Miami Beach. He also was afound- kvfi.manager of the Eden ltoc and Agene r,described C nsbbu?gk U�
er member of Mount Sinai Hospi- one of Lansburgh's longtime assn- "energetic and creative gay"
- ciates. "He did everything he could strwnental in.tha growth of
ffi5 PACKAGE tours and dose- to promote this town (Miaml Beach'u a vacation resort. Cotler
Beach) He will be r4membered for said he we famous for his manner',:
bye-occupancy rates made Miami his charity and friendliness -- be "He had a habit of boWing £0 peo+,
Beach vacations acceasible to did many good things but didn't do pie(when the-greeted them ;
white-collar workers. Before his them publicly." Lenaburgh is survived by bie
package tours, Miami Beach hotels wife, Jean, and three cbildrel
were the haven of the rich only. IN•1973,Lansburgh pleaded gt - Leonard of Miami Shores; Morrl's;
i In 1060, writing a guest column ty to cdttspiracy in a "skimming'" Jr. of North Miami; and Mrs. Ellen
for the late Dorothy KllgaIlen, operation at the Flamingo Hotel In Feinberg of Colorado.
+ . Lansburgh said, "I happen to love Las Vegas, which he ran from 1980 Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.
( Miami Beach and have always felt to 1967. Lansburgh pleaded guilty today in the Riverside Alton Road
that this lush tropical paradise to hiding ;36 million in casino In- Chapel. Burial will be 9n Graceland
1. ahoul4 be a haven for one and all come from tax collectors and Memorial Park.
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