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DOUG KAHN (D) District 27 (Northeastern Los Angeles County; Pasadena; Burbank...
DIED. G. DAVID SCHINE, 68, the Joseph McCarthy aide whose controversial Army stint led to the historic 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings; in a private-plane crash that also killed his wife and a son; in Burbank, California. The hearings exposed the Senator's communist-hunting excesses and led to his downfall...
DIED. LASH LARUE, 78, character actor best remembered for his bullwhip-cracking, black-outfitted cowboy roles in B westerns of the 1940s; in Burbank, California. His films include Song of Old Wyoming, Law of the Lash and King of the Bullwhip...
...build an entertainment factory on 260 acres of wetlands where Howard Hughes once assembled his lumbering wooden "Spruce Goose" plane. DreamWorks wasn't leaving the area--it needs the specialized talent that lives there--yet Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan didn't want the project to go to neighboring Burbank or Universal City. Complains councilman Nate Holden, a Democrat who represents part of inner-city Los Angeles and was the lone dissenter when the council voted on the project: "We're being asked to help the rich. This is a bunch of fat cats getting together and giving...
...music, what Allen lacks in in clarinet technique he makes up in sheer energy and passion. He goes for what he calls a "crude" sound, based on the styles of New Orleans legends like George Lewis, Albert Burbank and Sidney Bechet. Give him an A for authenticity. Few players today can boast such a powerful tone. That's due partly to his use of an extremely hard reed (Rico No. 5, about one step down from a roof shingle) and partly to his penchant for the now obsolete Albert system of keys and fingerings, favored by all the old-timers...