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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such, at least, is the enterprising idea of James W. D. Seymour '17, president of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles, and Peter Macgowan '42, son of the Broadway and Hollywood producer, Kenneth Macgowan...
...Artist Ferren's new, colorful pastels thus differed from the "flat" school of abstract painting is traceable to his training. A pleasant young man with brown hair and a bright orange mustache, John Millard Ferren, 33, started as a sculptor in 1926. He learned plaster casting in a Los Angeles plaster factory, tombstone cutting in San Francisco. As aids to the problems he was trying to work out in stone, he found himself covering sheets of paper with abstract drawings. In 1930 he began to paint, in 1931 worked his way to Paris, where he found a market...
Among the spectators at Longwood was 20-year-old Robert Riggs, Los Angeles minister's son, who within two years has zoomed from nowhere to second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
Sportsman Flier Howard Hughes has piled up more outstanding aviation records than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around...
...closing of the Steinbeck deal came Viking's rosy announcement that advance orders for Steinbeck's new volume of short stories, The Long Valley, to be published September 19, had already reached the 8,000 mark. Hard at work on a new novel at his bungalow in Los Gatos, Calif., Novelist Steinbeck meanwhile awaited a check for $6,000 covering back royalties. This will bring his total earnings (Of Mice and Men accounting for the bulk of them) to around $50,000. In another 17 years, when he is 53, he figures he will have saved enough...