Word: los
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...Los Angeles, Calif...
Last week in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, a U.S. citizen was sentenced to die as a traitor to the U.S. In all U.S. history, only a handful of traitors have heard that sentence. None has actually been executed as a traitor...
...responsible for all this oogledy-too is a deliberately foolish-looking band leader called Red Ingle (real name: Ernest Jansen). It all began, he says, when he and his band, the Natural Seven, were playing in a Los Angeles nightclub. One night his vocalist, Karen Tedder, complained that if she had to sing Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy once again, she would go mad. To prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they...
...Los Angeles, Ted Schroeder got to the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tourney. And he was mad. The press had panned him for going straight home (to work at his job, selling refrigeration equipment) after winning his Davis Cup matches. They expected a little more interest in the game from the man who had once been rated the nation's No. 1 amateur. His opponent last week was young Pancho Gonzales, who had just won the national amateur championship Ted Schroeder might have won at Forest Hills...
Died. Gregg Toland, 44, top Hollywood cameraman (The Long Voyage Home The Best Years of Our Lives) famed for his combination of creative imagination and technical skill; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Toland introduced revolutionary innovations which contributed to the critical success oi such movies as Citizen Kane and the Oscar-winning Wuthering Heights, just before he died was concentrating on the ultimate focus" lens (which makes both near and far objects equally distinct...