Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benny branched out into gambling, bookmaking and investments. He went right on prospering even after reform-minded Mayor Fletcher Bowron purged the cooperative cops, thus inviting torpedoes from all points East. There was opportunity for all in Los Angeles-the races, Hollywood, wartime black markets, herds of money-heavy aircraft...
By such single-minded planning, William Leonard Pereira has become, at 37, something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a staff of eight are now designing: 1) a $7½ million Beverly Hills medical center; 2) a $1...
To lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded...
Annemarie Hammer of Heidelberg, Germany was frankly perplexed. To the editors of Heute, a U.S.-sponsored, LIFE-like magazine, she wrote: "I don't see how this is possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams...
Divorced. By Eileen Herrick Lowther, 26, 1940 "Juliet" of the tabloids: George Lowther III, 36, publicity-minded "Romeo," who brought along a reporter and two cameramen on their elopement; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.