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Sirs: WE HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT AN EVENT WHICH TIME HAS GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED. WE ARE REFERRING TO YOUR BADLY DISTORTED, WHOLLY INACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DEWEY RALLY AT THE LOS ANGELES COLISEUM (TIME, OCT. 2). IF YOU ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR ROOSEVELT, WHY DON'T YOU SAY SO. . . . WE PREFER "SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP OF A HIGH ORDER" RATHER THAN "A VETERAN VIRTUOSO PLAYING A PIECE HE HAS LOVED FOR YEARS...
Sirs: . . . It so happens that I live just across the street from the Coliseum, and I was interested in watching the crowd as it trekked across the Park. High-school youngsters (nonvoters) were present in droves, and we saw a great many families (with three or four children, some toddlers) hurrying to get there in time for the glamorous entertainment promised. Add to these the hundreds of adults who, regardless of politics, would walk miles to see a Hollywood star, and we have a crowd made up, in great part, of movie admirers, not Dewey voters. "Ginger Rogers will introduce...
...Angeles, city, county and state officials were squabbling over who would do the renting of the huge 105,000-seat Coliseum. Waiting for a break in the clouds were Payne's movietown moneymen, Frank Sinatra and Harry James; Meehan's onetime Syracuse classmate, Cinema Producer Harry Joe Brown; and Ward's watchers, Christy Walsh and Don Ameche...
...rally in U.S. history.* What had Tom Dewey gained by it? Enough votes to overcome Franklin Roosevelt's lead in California? If so, it would be a major political achievement. But however well the speech was aimed at the Ham 'n Eggers in Southern California, at the Coliseum it was a total flop. The newsmen wrote it down as another demerit for Dewey...
...Times kept Los Angeles, until recent years, a strike-ridden city. It also kept the city open-shop, helped Chandler at tract the aircraft and other industries. He promoted vast Los Angeles real-estate developments, wide boulevards, Hollywood, the $60,000,000 artificial harbor at San Pedro, the Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl. Spreading his power and empire through out the Southwest, he became one of the nation's biggest landowners, one of the West's richest and most influential men. The Times (which has been actively managed since 1941 by his suave, able son Norman, 45) remained conservative...