There is, however, one more thing that exists today as it did in 1950. It is a house — a house now concealed behind a television station, apartment buildings, and the six-lane Desert Inn expressway near Channel 8 Drive. It sits painted as it was in its heyday: a minty seafoam hue, seemingly selected straight from a postwar paint catalogue. One of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world used this desert house. His time at the house was short, but his influence is still at work more than 50 years after his death. We call it the...