Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professionals gathered in Caltech's Dabney Hall in Pasadena were well qualified to speak on the subject. Among them: M.I.T.'s President James R. Killian Jr., Caltech's President Lee A. Du-Bridge, M.I.T.'s Dean (engineering) Carl Richard Soderberg, Caltech's Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average...
Since Herman Ridder, an immigrant's son, bought the German-language New York Staats-Zeitiing in 1890, the publishing Ridder clan has grown to three sons and eight grandsons-and their newspaper empire has kept pace. This week Ridder Publications Inc. bought the only two dailies in Pasadena. Calif., the evening Star-News (circ. 41,120) and the morning Independent (circ. 35,588). Reported total cost: $4,500,000. That made six California newspapers picked up by the Ridders in 3½ years, giving them a monopoly not only in Pasadena but also in Long Beach and San Jose...
Died. John Emerson, 8.1, oldtime stage actor (Tit for Tat in 1904), playwright and movie pioneer, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos; after long illness; in Pasadena. Calif...
...Hollywood Life. The picture was a hit, and the Holden boy was the golden boy of Hollywood. From the easy life in Pasadena he was transported to the easy life in Hollywood. Hollywood, however, is not so easy as it looks, and besides, as Bill's mother warned him, there is an "abyss" between the moral standards of the two communities. Half of him, the half that walked the suicide bridge, longed to live it up in high Hollywood style; but the other half, the nice boy from Pasadena, gave him a murderous moral hangover the next...
...same cold talk: "Face it, kid. You got no sex appeal. What can you do with that face? It looks like a baby's behind." Bill took such talk and came back for more. For the first time in his life he was really fighting-not for Pasadena, not for Hollywood, but for something of his own; and something of his own began to show in his face...