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MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE (Calif.) Dorothy Buffum Chandler, D.H., Los Angeles civic leader. Her great success in making real the concern of a lifetime which culminated in the incomparable music center...
...away. Both are part of Los Angeles' current cultural expansion, of which the biggest monument is the $24 million music center being built, half by municipal funds, half by private contributions collected ?in one of the great virtuoso performances of U.S. fund raising?by Dorothy Buffum Chandler, wife of Newspaper Publisher Norman Chandler (the Times-Mirror...
...Norman Buffum ("Buffie") Chandler, wife of Press Lord Norman Chandler (Los Angeles Times and Mirror) believes that there are "seven phases" in a woman's life: birth, childhood, adolescence, education, marriage, motherhood and community service. For more than a decade Buffie, now 59, has been in Phase 7 with formidable vigor. Picking a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic has long been her prerogative, and she exercises it with the care, authority and sometimes the emotionalism of Queen Victoria choosing a Prime Minister. Her latest choice, Hungarian-born Georg Sold, last week did not act the way a proper...
...nonsense hand, Norman plowed through boyhood farm chores, rode the range and punched cattle for a few happy years on the family's 300,000-acre El Tejon Ranch 75 miles north of Los Angeles, went to Stanford University (business administration). In 1922 he married Fellow Student Dorothy Buffum ('"Buffie"), dutifully settled down for a rough tour of workaday jobs at the Times, took over as boss when his father retired...
...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...