Word: los
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Los Angeles...
...welfare, as they fought their private prestige battles, had already brought the U.S. to what the President called "a pretty pass." A blight of unemployment spread across the land as industrial plants slowed down or shut down for lack of steel. General Motors reported layoffs in St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Framingham, Mass., Janesville, Wis., Norwood, Ohio and Tarrytown, N.Y. International Harvester announced that it would have to lay off workers in Springfield, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Ind. in early November. In some areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week...
...echoed in countless performances since they were put down more than a century ago by an actor named William Sedley and picked up by P. T. Barnum, first big producer of The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved. Last week The Drunkard's lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire department (which recently cut the Theatre Mart's top capacity...
Pound traced the path of his career around his office wall. "After that, I went to the University of California at Los Angeles, where I taught for three years, and then I became Tagore Professor of Law in India, at Calcutta University. Then, the Law School was good enough to offer me my quarters here. I am on a grant-in-aid that enables me to write and speak...
Divorced. Ex-Marine Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, rambunctious Medal of Honor flying ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); by Frances Baker Boyington, 45; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...