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Died. A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent, 75, multimillionaire radio manufacturer; in Los Angeles. The first big-time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host...
MANNERS & MORALS ¶ A 24-year-old artist named Cock van Gent ran an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper offering her left ear for sale for $24,000; she explained that she would use the money for living expenses while pursuing her career...
...Always Swore . . ." The armistice agreement was in large part due to the immense ability, patience, tact and unflagging good humor of Ralph Bunche, Negro social scientist (A.B., University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard) who had taken over the role of martyred Count Folke Bernadotte. Several times during the seven weeks of negotiations, agreement had seemed hopeless. Each time Dr. Bunche had thought of something to keep the talks alive. By last week, the negotiators on both sides had come to regard him as a new colossus of Rhodes...
Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the OSS, announced in Los Angeles: "It's not a cold war. It's a damn...
...Paramount's television interests will be split up. The Chicago station (WBKB) will go to the theater company. The movie company will get the Los Angeles station (KTLA), and the controlling interest in Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. With Paramount and RKO (TIME, Nov. 8) out of the fight, the Justice Department hoped that the rest of the "Big Five" (Loew's, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox) would also come to terms...