Word: culver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrible: he could barely walk, needed medical attention-but could not pay for it. He was, he said, Leo Lamphere, 47, of Watertown, N.Y. The sympathetic sergeant called a doctor who saw what looked like clots in the veins on both 'Lamphere's legs, ordered him to Culver Union Hospital. There Lamphere began spitting blood. He was put to bed, acted like a grateful model patient. That was a fortnight...
Next day one of the Culver staff saw a news story about a "hospital bum" who could bring up blood at will. The story was based on an article in the A.M.A. Journal by Iowa City's Dr. John S. Chapman describing a galloping case of the "Munchausen syndrome"* (TIME, March 5, 1951) and warning hospitals against this itinerant who, strangely, always used the same name. Hospital Superintendent Ralph Haas phoned Iowa City to ask Dr. Chapman the man's name. "Leo Lamphere," was the reply. Soon, into Lamphere's room marched two deputy sheriffs with...
...memento of their pre-TV past: the RKO lot itself. As bosses of TV's thriving Desilu Productions (I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks, December Bride), the couple offered about $6,000,000 for RKO's 15-stage lot in Hollywood plus its eleven-stage studios in Culver City and its valuable stock footage library. The deal-perhaps the most dramatic example yet of TV's upstaging the movies in their own backyard -is being "finalized" with the General Tire & Rubber Co., which bought the RKO properties two years ago from Howard Hughes for $25 million. Desilu...
HOWARD HUGHES plans to manufacture French twin-jet Caravelles for T.W.A. at his Hughes Aircraft Co. plant in Culver City, Calif. He will also buy 15 British-built Vickers Viscount four-engined turboprops for T.W.A...
...Parking Miser. A parking meter that automatically flips its flag to "Expired" as soon as a car moves out was put on sale by the Traffic Master Co., Culver City, Calif. In a twelve-day test on two San Francisco streets, the device, which is operated by a photoelectric cell buried in the parking space, increased parking revenues 39.6% since the next car could not use unexpired time. Price: around $37.50, plus $10 for installation...