Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DAVIDSON COOKE Los Angeles, Calif...
ZARA WITKIN Engineer Fabricoustic Co. Los Angeles, Calif...
...Into Los Angeles' sunlit harbor one day last week wallowed the 156-foot three-masted schooner Metha Nelson, her once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story...
...tributes to historical celebrities are often ungratefully received. Last November, descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had 17 children, growled because Suez failed to show that their progenitor had married. Last week, after a Hollywood preview of Jesse James, Miss Jo Frances James, not a bank robber but a Los Angeles bank executive, said: "About the only connection it had with fact was that there was once a man named James and he did ride a horse...
Bearded, scholarly Dr. Fernando de los Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., no friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...