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Several hungry, hazardous months later, on Nov. 27, 1826, they got to Mission San Gabriel, near the "pueblo of Los Angeles." Nobody took any note of it at the time, but "Smith's appearance in California marked the completion of the Anglo-American's long march across the continent, the fulfillment of his age-old search for a highway to the western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beaver Era | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

There are many possible answers. Perhaps the simplest answer is: Because T. S. Eliot is a civilized man. He is more; he is a commentator on his age who is considered by some more important than Gabriel Heatter or Walter Winchell-or even Walter Lippmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Mr. Eliot | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...Firehouse Five was started as a hobby and it was not the first one that Ward Kimball ever lit a match under. A onetime symphony trombonist who now makes his living putting out cartoons for Walt Disney, Kimball has a full-scale railroad in the yard of his San Gabriel home. After he restored a 1914 Ford to shining grandeur, he became an earnest member of the local Horseless Carriage Club. The band got started when he found some other jazz-record fans around the Disney lot; before long they had dusted off their long-neglected instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Good-Time Sound | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...cars pushed over the San Gabriel Mountains and into the Mojave Desert. They plunged into the 90° heat of Death Valley (some drivers sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Test Run | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...demonstrations, no mass picketing, no bloody clashes with police. But by last week, some 100,000 determined participants in inflation-ridden Chile's first "chain strike" had succeeded in scuttling a government bill ostensibly aimed at freezing wages and prices. They had also forced the resignation of President Gabriel González Videla's 1½-year-old "National Concentration" cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Payoff | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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