Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosed clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express would indicate that our local "Balloon Man" was hit shortly after I read about one you described...
...distrait career. Born in Iowa, she has lived in Arizona, Arkansas, Montana, California and New York. She wants to go to Europe but she cannot, since she has lost her birth certificate which she needs for her passport and does not know in what town she was born. In Los Angeles, she lives at El Royale Apartments facing the Wiltshire Golf Course. She does not play golf. Her major hobby is deep sea fishing. She has never caught a fish or even had a strike. She has few friends in the cinema industry. Most of the employes on the Warner...
...assistant professor of Music, is to receive assistance for creative work in musical composition both here and abroad. Professor Piston has been holder of the John Knowles Paine Fellowship and has written a book entitled, "Principles of Harmonic Analysis." His compositions have been played by the Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles Symphony Orchestras and by orchestras in Paris...
...told to Adamic himself, of three third-generation U. S.-Slovenes from Carniola. Peter Gale (whose immigrant grandfather was called Galé) shared a pup-tent with Adamic in the A. E. F. until he was wounded and gassed. Nine years after the War Adamic met Peter again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket...
...much for Peter's nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering but defenceless before the gathering wolves of the Los Angeles underworld, Peter fell victim to amnesia and disappeared. By the time Adamic found him again Peter was in no condition to write anything but "finis...