Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orthodontist Spencer R. Atkinson of Pasadena, Calif, saw a fresh danger in TV: children sitting around by the hour, or lying on their bellies, with their chins cupped in their hands, may push their jaws out of shape...
...high-school boy, he was a laggard student, liked most to swim and tramp in the mountains. He played football fairly well, but he gave up field sports when he was accidentally hit on the head by a South Pasadena shotputter...
...Pasadena Junior College and U.C.L.A. At the Navy's school at Pensacola, Fla., he learned to fly with the greatest of ease. When he made a perfect score in a landing test, the school's toughest instructor sourly remarked: "I've never given anybody a perfect rating, and I'm not going to start with...
...Pasadena, Calif...
Died. William Martin Jeffers, 77, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, World War II national rubber director; in Pasadena, Calif. Beginning as a call boy at 14, "Big Bill" Jeffers took no vacation (except for a honeymoon) for the next 40 of his 62 U.P. years. He introduced crack luxury streamliners, began a massive expansion program to make the U.P. one of the biggest moneymakers of any U.S. railroad...