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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright, who was born in Los Angeles and has spent almost all of his life there (except for a hitch as a U.S. Navy pilot and a TIME correspondent in London) can recall the time when "there was little more than wheatfields beyond Western Avenue." He found that the Los Angeles story was a rediscovery of his hometown. For Ed Rees, a native of Delaware, it was a firsthand discovery. After talking to architects, sociologists, county supervisors, meteorologists, etc. he found that some of his pet theories about...
...Chambers had testified that in the fall of 1937, Hiss lent him $400 to buy a car. Records of a Baltimore automobile company showed that Esther Chambers bought a car on Nov. 23, 1937. The Government looked at the Hisses' Washington bank account, found it showed a withdrawal of $400 on Nov. 19, 1937. The Hiss explanation was that they used the money to buy furniture. The importance of these bits of documentary evidence to the Government was that they established the Chamberses' intimate knowledge of the Hisses' private affairs more than a year after Hiss testified...
...with a hint of Southern drawl, she had a mind like a cash register, and she hadn't been in love since she was 21 (about 15 years ago by latest reckoning). For all of that, Brenda had a little trouble getting along. Every year or so she found herself in a brush with the law for practicing her profession...
...about two years ago things suddenly changed. Brenda had moved into Los Angeles, installed herself as the madam of a call house and found plenty of prosperity. As business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple...
Distinction. In Newark, Nathan Pinsky and Henry Schrier, found guilty of bookmaking, protested that they were not bookies but "turf counselors" who merely gave advice on horseflesh and charged a fee of 10% of the winnings...