Word: los
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last winter, 44-year-old Aircraft Mechanic Vernon W. Hansen of Strathmore, Calif. (100 miles north of Los Angeles) lay frightened on his hospital bed. He had told doctors that if left alone he could stop his heartbeat. Although he had done it in the past, Hansen feared that he might not be able to "will" his heart back to working. He turned on an electrocardiograph, then, "simply by allowing everything to stop," silenced his heartbeat for five seconds. After a deep breath, he was back to normal. Last week, writing in California Medicine, Dr. Charles M. McClure of Lindsay...
...blow at Exhibition Park. Both shindigs, together with the Boston Jazz Festival, are the handiwork of Newport Impresario George Wein, who advertises his various wares under the slogan, "Have Festival, Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall's Island (the Randall's Island Jazz Festival), the Michigan State Fair Grounds (Michigan State Jazz Festival) and Tamiment-in-the-Poconos (the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival...
...since those unorganized and impoverished days. By bread-and-butter standards, the improvements are impressive. Now 30,857 strong (about half editorial, half other categories), the Guild guarantees today's journeyman reporter a good minimum wage-$157.10 a week on the New York Daily News, $136 on the Los Angeles Herald-Express, $105 on the Indianapolis Times. And his security is as thoroughly bolted as any blue-collar compositor's. Typically, he gets severance pay, three weeks' paid vacation a year, paid sick leave, a pension, a 40-hour week or less, and the contractual right...
...local lowered its attendance quorum to 10% to get legislation out of indefinite hock. In the last twelve years the Guild has added only 6,560 new members, has made little or no effort to plaster the gaping holes in its ranks, e.g., such traditional holdouts as the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, the Detroit News, the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Omaha World-Herald. "We won't come through Omaha," says Guild Executive Vice President William J. Farson, "until someone asks us." Of some 1,750 U.S. dailies, the Guild...
Married. Dorothy Dandridge, 36, lithe Negro cinemactress (Porgy and Bess, Carmen Jones); and Jack Denison, 46, white owner of a Los Angeles supper club; both 'or the second time; in Hollywood...