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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
Sure Thing. In Los Angeles, Henry Juppenlatz paid his taxes, dropped dead...
...with meticulous care. When it was all over (it had taken 30 minutes), she made a few more notes at the bottom of her clipboard. Telephone? "No." Union member? "No." "Man." "White." She thanked the peddler and moved on to the park adjoining Central Public Library in dirty, downtown Los Angeles...
...University of Southern California's newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...
...Campaign. Taylor's passion for telling people about the works of free enterprise has made him the West Coast's prickliest burr in the pants of traditionalist businessmen. Los Angeles-born, he graduated from the University of California (1922) and went to work for an iron company which was later merged into Consolidated Steel Corp. In 1934, when Taylor became Consolidated's president, the company was in the red. He overhauled operations, cleaned out the deadwood and put Consolidated into the black. In 1938, when Los Angeles Union Oil, oldest and second largest West Coast oil company...