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When the fire was finally quenched-40 hours after it began-the flames had burned more than 11,500 acres, destroyed and damaged 30 homes and caused total losses estimated at more than $5,000,000. That fire would be recorded in the disaster logbook alongside the 1961 Bel Air fire that wiped out 484 homes, the 1958 Malibu fire that destroyed 72 houses, and the 1938 Topanga Canyon blaze that leveled 350 homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: No End to Disaster | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Odds & Symbols. Elizabeth Ashley got her first toe in as understudy to Barbara Bel Geddes in Mary, Mary. Soon she was all over the big TV shows, like Hallmark Hall of Fame and The Defenders. "The only person who ever believes in you is you, and I believed in me a lot," she remembers. Her first major Broadway chance finally made hay out of her belief: in 1961's Take Her, She's Mine, she turned the daughter's role into a Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Two in the Center | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

What talk it seemed to bel Aluminum piping, chlorination, reservoir control. Back and forth the conversation went in quick repartee. Before dessert they had gone on to split system sewage disposal, and then in a postprandial few minutes they dealt to their satisfaction and mine with oxidative water purification...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: The Age of the Plumber | 3/5/1964 | See Source »

...banks (cofounder of Tulsa's largest, the First National Bank and Trust), then gave his 127,000-acre ranch Philmont and Tulsa's 23-story Philtower to the Boy Scouts, donated most of his other real estate to worthy causes, and retired in 1945 to California; in Bel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 7, 1964 | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...Power Centers. Restaurants as a whole are actually out and private dinner parties are in, but try to remember not to put it that way because it is out to say that something is in. Yet nothing is in-er than a dinner on the Bel Air circuit. Careers are made or snuffed there-at Saturday-night after-dinner screenings in the Bel Air homes of new power centers like Producers Harold Mirisch and Ray Stark, or old Hollywood truebloods like Bill Goetz, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Survival Kit | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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