Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California. Pasadena cops writing an examination for sergeant's ratings found themselves unable to define such low-down underworld terms as gopher (safeblower), third rail (incorruptible official), derrick (shoplifter) and kite (a letter sneaked past the warden). Crooks don't talk that way in Pasadena, they complained. The chief of police agreed, ordered all "detective fiction crime terms" stricken from the exam. Said one cop who got a higher score than his mates: "I'd read a short story in the Saturday Evening Post the night before, so I knew most of the answers...
Reproachful Looks. In thirsty Arizona, the most successful is Charles Barnes of Phoenix, a first-class flying man who, with 17 airplanes equipped or being equipped for rainmaking, had seven projects going full blast from Texas to California. Another big rainmaker is Irving Krick of Pasadena, Calif., who has projects in New Mexico, Colorado, California, Idaho and Washington. Best publicized of the lot is Harvard's Dr. Wallace Howell, hired last March by New York City (at $100 a day for a maximum of 15 days a month) when the great reservoirs in the Catskills and Westchester County were...
...comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...
Personal Equation. In Pasadena, Calif., Clarence A. Bunnell, cited for speeding, argued that he has "an intuitive sense of speed," persuaded Judge William E. Fox to go for a test ride, called his miles-per-hour so close to the speedometer that he was found not guilty...
...Albert McCleery, the 38-year-old ex-paratrooper who produces and directs Cameo Theater, the "beautiful job" was what mattered most. An admirer of the "arena" theater (TIME, June 12), he got his early training at Gilmor Brown's Pasadena Playhouse, was briefly a movie writer (The Lady Is Willing) and, as head of the Fordham University Theater, set up one of the first arena theaters east of the Mississippi. After "wasting a year and $50,000 of NBC's money" doing standard TV shows, McCleery got his chance to experiment with the month-old Cameo Theater...