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...Hollywood movie company. In the next decade he became Paramount's head of production. The job paid $11,000 a week before "the age of taxes, accountants, business managers and tax shelters [when] the make-it-and-spend-it philosophy ruled the town." He discovered the "It" girl, Clara Bow, and the German character lead Emil Jannings; he promoted the careers of people as diverse as Director Ernst Lubitsch and the Marx brothers. Yet, by his mid-40s he had flamed out. His son began in movies by collaborating with an alcoholic writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald (whom...
More than 500 National Guardsmen carted the fruit away, burying an estimated 750 tons in Santa Clara landfill dumps. Roadblocks had been set up at three points and produce was confiscated from 12,661 of the 286,240 cars and trucks checked. But aerial support was vital, and many Californians, especially farmers, were angry that spraying did not start sooner. At first Governor Jerry Brown had resisted, evidently concerned that he would alienate his strong environmentalist constituency. He changed his mind when U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block began planning a quarantine. Complained California Senator S.I. Hayakawa: "Brown should have done...
...Medfly explosion: by bombarding infested areas from the air with a pesticide, Malathion. President Reagan's Agriculture Secretary, John Block, agrees, and his department threatened to quarantine all California produce susceptible to infestation unless aerial spraying was immediately approved. But residents of fly-plagued Santa Clara County, which includes the high-income communities of Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco, have vehemently opposed that approach. Noting that Malathion is suspected by some scientists of causing cancer and birth defects, they raised protest placards at town meetings and wrote angry letters equating the spraying with the use of the defoliant...
...also the biggest threat to California agriculture in years. A tiny pest the size of a grain of rice, the Medfly began showing up last summer in both the Los Angeles area and Santa Clara Country. No one knows where it came from -perhaps in fruit carried by a tourist returning from Hawaii. But though the flies are not indigenous to the mainland, they lay their eggs in at least 200 U.S.-grown fruits and vegetables, including such California staples as plums, peaches, apricots and nectarines. Maggots hatch from the eggs and feast away until the fruit drops...
Antonia White worked as a journalist and as a translator from the French. She wrote three more autobiographical books, which follow her heroine, now called Clara Batchelor, until she is 23. The Lost Traveller centers on her intense relation with her adoring but autocratic father. If Claude Batchelor lacks Dickensian vitality, he is drawn with a similar range of contradictory, deeply human strengths and weaknesses. The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass, covering a disastrous marriage and an emotional breakdown (which White also suffered), are less effective, but reflect the accuracy and honesty of the author's eye. White...