Word: loma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atop a hill in a Toronto residential area stands a stolid, stone anachronism, Casa Loma. A mixture of 17th Century Scotch baronial and 20th Century-Fox, the castle rears its turrets as a memento to one Canadian's short-lived dream of glory. Starting in 1911, financier Sir Henry Pellatt poured an estimated $3,000,000 into the old-world battlements, wine cellars, secret stairways and tunnels; into the new-world trimmings, tiled swimming pool, modern plumbing (solid gold & silver fixtures), bowling alley, shooting galleries. Before Casa Loma's 100 rooms were completely finished or furnished, Sir Henry...
...School Tie. In Loma Linda, Calif., Dr. Edwin Lee remembered a Japanese classmate back in his college days when he finally got his missing anatomy textbook back - from Attu...
...ranking officers in the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics ("Gentlemen, we have work to do"), Army, Navy and Congress leaders in Speaker Sam Rayburn's office, "a great throng . . . looking west across San Diego harbor, and out beyond Point Loma to the Pacific...
...recruiting station said, "I want to beat them Japs with my own bare hands." At the docks in San Diego, as the afternoon wore on, a crowd slowly grew. There were a few people, then more, then a throng, looking intently west across the harbor, beyond Point Loma, out to the Pacific where the enemy was. There was no visible excitement, no hysteria, and no release in words for the emotions behind the grim, determined faces...
...budding newspaperman (sportswriter on PM) and has the right idea on how to put a paper together. Every issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days when you and I though Casa Loma played hot music. In addition, there are cartoons by John Groth, whose work you know from Esquire and the New Yorker, and photographs by Charles Peterson, who is recognized as the leading photographer of swing musicians in the country...