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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandfather, was by no means the only fighter in his descendants' lineage. John Henry Lewis inherited his profession more directly from a grandfather, who was a heavyweight, his father, who was a featherweight. Two brothers are also prizefighters. Practicing his profession, Lewis' father migrated from Ohio to Los Angeles, trekked back to Phoenix, Ariz., where he opened a gymnasium and taught boxing. John Henry Lewis was ready to enter his father's business at 16. He did so without the preface, customary for such young fisticuffers, of fighting as an amateur. Instead, he took all the professional...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...
Readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner found a tiny Paramount advertisement saying: "Important feature. For information call VA-2041 [the theatre]." In the same issue they found a large advertisement of a Negro burlesque show, displaying two nude Negro women with the caption: "It's a hot, sizzling performance of black & brown skin revues! Daring, intimate, greatest array of beautiful brown-skin models, with 89 teasing beauties on the stage...
...Los Angeles, when Tenant Richard Godfrey, 18, took his horse upstairs and stabled it for the night in his apartment, Tenant Mrs. Frances Jebb called police because she could not sleep with the horse "clomping around upstairs." Protested Godfrey: "I've never let Tuffie out of my sight since we left North Platte, Neb. together. The man we rented the apartment from said it would be all right to take Tuffie right upstairs. You see, he's a trick horse...