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...American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson Aircraft before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. California knows Cord as the man who developed a fabulously profitable eight-block stretch of Beverly Hills' Wilshire Boulevard, owns the 31-acre Pan Pacific Auditorium, has a huge chunk of Santa Anita track stock...
...monster Madison Square Garden rally. In Los Angeles, a parade of new cars led by a show girl in a pink, fur-trimmed Thunderbird implored everyone to buy, buy, buy. But the air was also filled with discordant notes. As the "You Buy" cavalcade rolled down Hollywood Boulevard, a motorist cruised up in a weary 1955 Chevrolet sedan that was equipped with a loudspeaker blaring angrily: "It's too late now! You're too far gone! Get your prices down! Get your prices down...
...long ago he specialized in booze and brawling. On his way home from the Army in 1946, Ken stopped in at his favorite bar at Sin Corner-Summers Street and Kanawha Boulevard-and there he learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were...
...with this tired story line, the answer struck last week with the finality of a chord of doom: no -in the case of one queen in particular. The chord rumbled for Lana Turner, the Sweater Girl whose feckless pursuit of happiness became men's-room talk from Sunset Boulevard to Fleet Street, and for her shaken, 14-year-old daughter Cheryl, who stabbed Lana's paramour, Johnny Stompanato (TIME. April 14). Last week a coroner's inquest declared Cheryl's act justifiable homicide, but this decision hardly lessened the sociological impact of a news story that...
Steak & Fear. Fidel Castro's rebels embarrassed the authorities, but the race went on. Next afternoon the cars were ready, the Malecon that curves along Havana's lovely coastline had been cleared. A crowd of 150,000 lined the broad boulevard. The Cuban National Sports Commission delayed the race for more than an hour while local cops ran down false rumors of Fangio's release. Then France's Maurice Trintignant slid into Fangio's empty seat in a blue Maserati, and the big buckets of power were sent careening around the 3½-mile course...