Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pasadena, the FBI arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...
...casualties with better poloists, to whom he gave studio jobs. Though the team was at first sneered at as the only one "where the horses are better bred than the men," its intense, fearless little captain drove it to win the respect of its opponents and the hospitality of Pasadena's uppity Midwick Country Club. Meanwhile, headlong Darryl Zanuck became a two-goal player at the price of such injuries as a smashed nose and a broken hand...
Last week, after heart-warming welcomes up the Pacific Coast from Pasadena to Seattle, the little maestro took to the outdoors. At Sun Valley, he lolled on the grass, watched his grandson, Yale Sophomore Walfredo Toscanini, play tennis, then sat himself in a ski-lift chair for a trip part way up 9,200-ft. Baldy Mountain. Was he scared? Not a bit, scoffed Toscanini. He had been a mountain climber in his youth-which was a good 60 years ago. Up & down the lift, he gaily applauded members of his orchestra as they passed, crying "Bellissimo," with the enthusiasm...
...American Medical Association gave its distinguished service medal to wiry, twinkle-eyed Dr. George Dock, of Pasadena, Calif. Last week at the Los Angeles County Medical Association Building, 300 physicians closer to home honored the 90-year-old doctor by turning out to attend the tenth annual George Dock lecture...
Matthiessen was born in Pasadena, California, in 1902. He graduated from Yale in 1923 and went as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Literature. In 1925 he returned to Harvard and received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in 1926 and 1928. After a brief period as instructor at Yale, Matthiessen returned to Harvard in 1929 and has taught here since...