Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Oona. He had flown into Los Angeles saying, "I have come in the interests of peace." California was not like the Middle West, which had received its native lowan for the most part with austere interest. In Hollywood, pink-hued stars turned out to welcome him with huzzas. Film Director William Wyler entertained him. A capacity crowd of 30,000 filled Gilmore Stadium to cheer him. Contributions rolled in. Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona signed a check...
...Mexican audience in Los Angeles he cried: "I wish I could say that you Mexican-Americans have been rewarded for everything you have contributed to California. But it is a shame upon your country that you have not. This ... is one of the many disgraces which has made necessary a new political party...
When Pianist-Conductor Jacques Rachmilovich arrived in the U.S. eight years ago, he was almost broke. For a while, he worked in a Los Angeles gas station. In his spare time he took over (without pay) the baton of a nameless group of Hollywood movie musicians who were so bored with stop & go script music that they banded together to play, once a week, some piece of music all the way through...
...Los Angeles, the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan said he had not realized that he had violated Presbyterian constitutional law by officiating at the fourth marriage of Cinemactress Lana Turner and Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. He had been much impressed, he said, by Miss Turner's "sincerity and the depth of feeling in her . . . There is a spiritual quality in that woman ... I became convinced that they . . . wanted to break with the past and put their marriage on a Christian basis." Since Minister Mac-Lennan admits violating the rules, a presbytery judicial commission will not have...
...took was a little imagination, and an amateur's interest in archeology. One day last fall Willy Stahl, Los Angeles musician and painter, went into the Mojave Desert 180 miles northeast of Los Angeles and tried to guess where he would have settled, had he been a Pinto Man living 10,000 years...