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...heard 980 miles away in Columbia (pop. 43,000), site of the University of Missouri. Stout-souled citizens wonder what is wrong. Chamber of Commerce members writhe to the beat and get the message. It is so nonsensical that at first it seems to be garbled: name the new boulevard (boom-lay boom) after Milton Caniff...
...svelte blonde in a black sheath dress, with mink stole draped casually over her right arm, stopped during an inspection of a new apartment house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week and gushed: "It's the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. But, I mean, it's even nicer than our house." Near her, a trim, wavy-haired man gravely replied: "Thank you, madam." For Norman Tishman, 56, president of Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co., the compliment was no surprise; his company had planned the building to be the most luxurious cooperative...
From his new apartment building, Norman Tishman could look down Wilshire Boulevard toward five 13-story Tishman office buildings and the site of a projected 22-story Tishman office building in downtown Los Angeles. Such hustling has in the last few years made Tishman the biggest single landlord in Southern California, added to the firm's reputation as a pace setter for real estate men in other cities as well...
...Hollywood milkman, snickered the Empire News, "drives a horse-drawn cart through the streets, crying the familiar 'Milk-ho' before the homes of the famous on Sunset Boulevard...
...Pittsburgh streets, making lakes and torrents in the gutters. It streamed from the hats and coats and faces of the marchers, drenched their banners, soaked their shoes, as they trudged-850 of them in one group, 350 in another-to meet at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard. There the two leaders clasped wet hands, and all raised their voices in a spontaneous doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . ." Four abreast, 1,200 strong, they marched through the rain together to celebrate the first Communion of a new church...