Word: hermosa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAZZ CRUSADERS, LIGHTHOUSE '68 (Pacific Jazz). Pride of The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., the Crusaders have plenty to say in this album and plenty of "chops" (technique) to say it with. Their musical message lies in today's mainstream -a blend of hard-rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves...
Died. Mae Marsh, 72, early Hollywood heroine, who first starred in D. W. Griffith's 1915 classic, The Birth of a Nation; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. Mae was only 16 when her auburn-haired beauty caught. Griffith's eye and he signed her to a contract at $3 a day. She moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose...
...Hermosa Beach, Calif...
...year-old man was picked up by Los Angeles police after he tried to rob two banks by threatening tellers with a baseball bat. A housewife left her two children eating candy at a bus-stop in Hermosa Beach, stuck up a Bank of America branch at toy gun point for $4,000, picked up her kids and strolled away. She was arrested down the street. Ludicrous as some of these amateurs' efforts are, they do not amuse the cops. Growls one Los Angeles veteran: "When you take loot, you've lost your amateur standing...
LEONARD WIBBERLEY Hermosa Beach, Calif...