Beverly Harrell, a Brooklyn-born Jewish woman who went west to become a successful brothel operator in Nevada where prostitution is legal, lost by a hair in her bid for a seat in the State legislature yesterday. Miss Harrell, 46, polled 2552 votes against 2674 for her opponent, liquor store owner Don Moody, whom she had beaten earlier in the Democratic primary. There was no Republican contender. When the early election returns showed the madam leading, miners and cowboys who frequented her house, as well as her “girls,” began to celebrate. But this afternoon, the House Miss Harrell hoped to make her home eluded her.
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