Word: los
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Impostor [June 29], Culter Academy in Los Angeles has felt the impact of the charming and intelligent Demara, who was a member of the faculty for two months. He was hired just last February to teach a section of the eighth grade. He used the name Jefferson B. Thome, and left transcripts from William and Mary in the office. In conversation he said that he had been educated in private schools in England, had been a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, a teacher and principal for 13 years in Massachusetts and for a year in Alaska...
DAVID F. SIEMENS JR. Los Angeles...
...Casper, Wyo., an oil executive quit without turning in his office keys, later was caught fingering through secret maps in another executive's office. The company did not prosecute, but passed around word that made the erring executive as welcome in the industry as Klaus Fuchs at Los Alamos...
...queues of passengers at airport ticket counters still creep at the old snail's pace. To bring ticketing up to jet-age standards, Denver's Continental Air Lines last month began selling tickets aloft instead of at airports on its Boeing 707 flights between Chicago and Los Angeles. Continental's competitors at first scoffed that the commuterlike service would produce only confusion, but last week they banked steeply onto Continental's course. The innovation proved so successful in eliminating nagging airport waits (it also helped boost Continental's revenue passenger miles 61% last month) that...
...programs seem as if they were made up entirely of commercials. Last week Los Angeles' KTTV went all the way, put on Cavalcade of Spots, a half-hour show that was in fact nothing but commercials...