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Word: pasadena (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backfire. In Pasadena, Calif., Scout Leader Kenneth Chessman admitted to police that he had set fire to Boy Scout headquarters only because he felt that his work was not appreciated by the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...cameras mounted in a bulletproof blister overlook the exercise yard, another, perched in the wall opposite the cell tier, swings from side to side like a metronome, staring balefully at the men in their bunks. Television eyes peer down at customers and clerks in the Alpha Beta grocery in Pasadena, Calif., watching for shoplifters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kid Brother | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Politico James Roosevelt, who is trying to win a California congressional nomination above the echoing din of wholesale adultery charges filed by his estranged wife Romelle. finally won a round in their mud-plastered court battle. A Pasadena judge let Roosevelt change his separate maintenance suit to a divorce action, which Romelle, a Roman Catholic, has caustically opposed because "he has no grounds for a divorce except his desire to remarry." The court threw two sops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

There is no evidence that typical human cancers have anything to do with a virus. And if there were, treatment with antibiotics would do no good because none has been found to have any effect on true viruses. These stubborn facts have not deterred Dr. John E. Gregory of Pasadena, Calif. To "prove" his thesis that human cancer is caused by a virus, he has put out a book with photographs purporting to show the virus particles under the electron microscope. He grosses $400,000 a year by treating up to 300 patients a day with "Gregomycin," which he calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From His Own Backyard | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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