Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PHILIP KESSLER Los Angeles, Calif...
...checked every culvert and every bridge over which the 18-car presidential special would pass. Presidential Ghostwriters Clark Clifford and Sam Rosenman jotted down ideas for scores of impromptu back-platform talks, sketching in the drafts of the President's five major speeches (Chicago, Omaha, Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles...
...Tillie Siegel, 50, of Los Angeles, sued Grauman's Chinese Theater for $5,000 damages. Mrs. Siegel claimed that she had stubbed her toe on Greer Garson's footprint in the cement outside the theater, fallen and suffered bruises, scratches and "discomfort...
Ancient Camp. Last week a small expedition, led by white-haired Curator Mark R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, was pocking the hill with carefully dug excavations. Working with trowels and brushes in 100° heat, they turned up spear points, grinding stones and the charcoal of ancient fires. Their prize find: a piece of human thigh bone. Curator Harrington believes that the site was inhabited seasonally by 300 to 400 people about 10,000 years...
...Los Angeles, Bullock's department store next week will put on sale a hatlike home hair dryer for women, the "Turbanette." Price: $6.95. (It will soon go on sale in 30 other stores in 16 other cities.) The inventor, John Moore, ex-aircraft engineer at Lockheed, got the idea from seeing aircraft engines packed with sacks containing silica gel (a deliquescent powder) to protect them from moisture. The turban of cotton muslin packed with silica gel will dry a woman's hair-after washing-in half an hour...