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...probably know of the Los Angeles Times's single-handed fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam. On the surface this does not seem to be much of a cause but the Times has elevated it to a kind of daffy dignity. In fact, its bulldog tenacity and unconquerable championship of Hoover Dam has been so fierce that when an innocent cigaret company offered it a whole page advertisement tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot...
...that President Roosevelt just dedicated the great Colorado River dam, let TIME relieve its perplexed California readers who are confused by the Los Angeles Times's continual harping on "Hoover Dam.'' Has the Times any justification for its stand...
...KINSPEL Los Angeles, Calif...
Manhattan, Philadelphia and Boston can still claim to have the world's three blue-ribbon orchestras. But symphony music will also be played eloquently this winter in Chicago, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Rochester, N. Y., Detroit. St. Louis' symphony attendance has increased more than 50% in the last two seasons. New orchestras have taken firm root in Washington, D. C., Kansas City, Duluth. More concerts will be given in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Richmond, Syracuse, Louisville, Ky., Asheville, N. C., Lincoln, Neb., Houston, Dallas, Denver, Milwaukee, Seattle, in many another U. S. city. Women have...
Chicago's Planetarium bears the name of Merchant Max Adler (Sears, Roebuck), Philadelphia's that of Soapmaker Samuel S. Fels (Fels-Naptha), Los Angeles' that of the late Griffith Jennings Griffith, rich pioneer settler. The planetarium opened with suitable pomp in Manhattan last week is named for clapper Bachelor-Banker Charles Hayden, 65, director of some 70 corporations...