Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City did not speak English, claimed Doyle's wife was a fraud, and ended his friendship with Conan Doyle. In 1929, the Ambassador was the site of the infamous Atlantic City Conference, in which a number of organized crime bosses, including Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, negotiated their territorial rights after a wave of violence. In 1931, as Philadelphia gangster Mickey Duffy slept in the hotel, he was shot and killed by assailants who were never caught. The incident was dramatized in the series "Boardwalk Empire", with a character called Mieczyslaw "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik. The hotel eventually closed in the
Paul Lansky based on late-16th-century dance music, and "Ricercare Plus", inspired by 17th-century counterpoint. Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American composer. Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan’s High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studying with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, among others. Originally intending to pursue a career in performance, during 1965–66 he played the French horn with the Dorian Wind Quintet. He left the group to attend graduate school. From 1969 until his retirement in 2014 he was on the faculty