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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CLARKE PAINTER Los Angeles, Calif...
...friend Lawyer Morris Ernst) proclaimed the postage rate on books containing all reading, no advertising matter, cut from 8? to 1? a pound. Publishers, who have long chafed against higher rates for books than for magazines (previous cost of mailing a 2-lb. book from New York to Los Angeles: 26?: a 2-lb. magazine: 3?), urged the reduction to enable them to reach the 32,000,000 U. S. rural and small-town dwellers who have no access to bookstores...
Hollywood, to whom such phenomena should be as interesting as a $1,000,000 bank balance to a Wall Street broker, remains as stubbornly unaware of Autry as other U. S. population centres. Autry pictures rarely play in major Los Angeles theatres, and Autry is seldom recognized on the rare occasions when he appears in public. Irritated by his obscurity, the cinema's most popular star draws attention to himself by wearing cowboy clothes off screen as well as on, has a special white gabardine cowboy suit for evening wear. He takes off his cowboy suits only...
...first week in November, a large part of the U. S. population comes down with Rose Bowl fever. At Los Angeles last week the epidemic was most pronounced. Over 95,000 football fans, snuggled in University of Southern California's Memorial Coliseum, suffered chills up & down their spines as they watched the two top-ranking teams in the Pacific Coast Conference match wits and strength in a struggle to determine the West Coast's representative* in the annual Rose Bowl game on New Year...
William R. Byler '39, of Toledo, Ohio; John B. Fisher '41, of Los Angeles, California;Richard C. W. Fisher '41, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island; William C. Flinn '39, of Redwood Falls, Minnesota; Sanford L. Gray '41, of Cleveland, Ohio; John F. Grindle, Jr. '39, of Washington; Clarence Hagen '39, of Marysville, Washington; George B. Handelman '41, of Pittsburgh; Louis Bartz '40, of Omaha, Nebraska...