Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last year, while dancing at the Los Angeles Palladium, he found a new girl, a dark-haired, 24-year-old ex-Toronto schoolteacher named Betty Ritchie. Little Betty Ritchie succumbed to his line and his dark good looks, moved into his apartment. To Betty, the life they led was idyllic; Dennis insisted that she keep her $40-a-week job, but he gave her a wedding ring and an old mink coat...
...country as the chain-letter game did 14 years ago. He was not the only man to make a fast buck. Another Detroiter got a bushel basket full of money in one evening, and gave away five-dollar bills as mementoes of the stirring occasion. People in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and dozens of other U.S. cities and towns hit the jackpot too and found themselves in a delirious state of sudden solvency...
...keep the chain process alive. But I have yet to find anyone who has won the $4,096." But newspapers which warned against Pyramid Clubs or prosecutors who tried to break them up, quickly discovered that the pyramiders had no wish to be saved. In Los Angeles' suburban Huntington Park, a courtroom-full of pyramiders hugged, kissed and cheered Justice of the Peace Stanley Moffatt after he ruled that the clubs were not illegal...
Between numbers, in a Los Angeles cafe called Omar's Dome, a Negro pianist mused over his keyboard. A phrase had strayed into his mind, and he was trying to fit a melody to it. Suddenly, "it came to me just as straight as could be." Pianist Harvey O. Brooks hummed his tune all the way home, wrote it out in 20 minutes. Then he put it away in a drawer...
Born. To Joseph Pasternak, 47, Hungarian-born cinemusical producer (Three Smart Girls, Anchors Aweigh), and Dorothy Darrell Pasternak, 28: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Peter. Weight...