Word: playa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playa del Key, Calif...
...Mille. 76. veteran playwright (Strongheart, The Warrens of Virginia) and motion picture director (Craig's Wife, Passion Flower), onetime (1941-53) head of the University of Southern California's drama department, brother of Producer-Director Cecil B. De-Mille and father of Choreographer Agnes de Mille; in Playa del Rey. Calif...
...after hurrying to the scene from Santiago: "There are no words to describe it." He called on Congress to vote aid to the injured, numbering at least 500, and to the relatives of the dead. Next day, amidst national mourning, he led the funeral procession from the cathedral to Playa Ancha cemetery on a hill overlooking the disaster scene. Then he ordered the arrest of the district highway engineer who had stored the dynamite in the warehouse without notifying firemen and local authorities...
...Playa Del Rey, Calif...