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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith of Gloucester, Mass., who has been a TIME subscriber from the first issue, took exception to a remark in our July 4 cover story on Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Los Angeles. We said that Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester. Mr. Smith thought the statement irrelevant. He maintained that quality, not quantity, was the true measure, and that there were no fish worth eating in the Pacific anyway. Otherwise, he found the story first-rate...
...Traditional" houses, built in any one of a dozen old-fashioned styles, were still away out in front. Driving along any street of new, custom-built homes in Los Angeles, the pondering home-builder could see U-shaped ranch houses, French provincials, New England colonials, Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouses and scaled-down copies of Mount Vernon, set in neighborly alignment on 90-or 100-ft lots...
...southern California is also the stamping ground of one of the world's best and most influential moderns-Los Angeles Architect Richard Joseph Neutra The broad, glassy brows of Neutra's buildings (and those of such onetime Neutra apprentices as Gregory Ain, Raphael bonano and Harwell Harris) line the Pacific shore, nestle in the canyons and beam down from a hundred hilltops. After 23 years in the neighborhood, 57-year-old Vienna-born Richard Neutra has gone a long way toward making the place one of the hotbeds of the U.S. modern...
...CowShed Modern." Mr. B., a Los Angeles stockbroker, and his family are more typical of Neutra's clients. The B.s lived in a conventional house, furnished with antiques and larger than they needed, since their 21-year-old son was away at college most of the time. A year ago they decided to build something small and modern on a steep lot in the hills near Coldwater Canyon. Mr. B. was afraid of getting what he described as "cowshed modern," so they called the best man they knew of, Neutra. They were afraid he might not be interested...
Male Animal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Dorothy Bemis Radford won a divorce on the ground that her husband would not allow her to sit on his lap to watch television. Mrs. Joyce Holdridge sued for divorce, charging that every time she was near her husband she would "break out in a rash from head...