Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balenciaga) at 56, Buffie Chandler first dived energetically into public life in 1935 as a volunteer at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, inevitably became a trustee. Inevitably, too, she became a regent at the University of California, almost singlehanded rescued the foundering Hollywood Bowl concerts, collected civic committee chairmanships like baubles on a charm bracelet. It was she, says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great Los Angeles blight: smog. "Buff and I were driving downtown one day in 1946," says Chandler, "and Buff's eyes started to stream. She looked...
...square, concrete-block family mansion in the Hancock Park section of town. By 8:30 a.m. Norman rolls out his black Mercedes 300, heads off to the Times building five miles away, where he imperturbably juggles the deskload of problems that reach out from all his financial and civic connections...
...Buffie. Efficient, charming, she carries the informal title of "assistant to the president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...
...season (which will leave the company with an easily manageable $5,000-to-$10,000 deficit). Direct contributions have poured in from service-station owners, haberdashers, statehouse employees and wealthy, retired businessmen. If some are not all-out lovers of opera, all have been touched on their civic pride, or calculate the potential profits to be had if Santa Fe becomes the Salzburg of the Southwest. "I don't know a damn thing about opera," said the Opera Association's president; Walter R. Barker, a former Chicago industrialist, "but I know a good thing when...
...opposed a municipal parking project to relieve downtown congestion, 3) cold-shouldered a fund drive for the community-backed convalescent home, and 4) denounced the city council's plans to replace a 50-year-old public library. The News's editorials on the library issue finally jolted civic leaders into counterattacking with a community-wide drive to put over an $880,000 library bond issue...