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...rundown hotels and is sustained by TV, soup and a weekly copy of Variety brought to him by his solicitous nephew-agent Ben (Lewis J. Stadlen). Clark particularly relishes scanning the obits in the show-biz bible ("Bernie Eisenstein...he was Rodriguez in the dance team of Ramona and Rodriguez...
...lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Austin began his career as an entertainer by pounding bawdyhouse pianos. After a stint in vaudeville, he moved to the recording studios of RCA Victor, where his drawling tenor made hits of tunes like How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ramona. His biggest success, My Blue Heaven (1927), became his theme song...
Last week, acting on a tip, immigration agents raided Ramona's Mexican Food Products Company, a food processing firm in suburban Los Angeles. According to federal officials, Ramona's is "an indiscriminate employer of illegal aliens." Five times in the last four years the company had been raided, and each time agents had turned up illegal aliens. They were not disappointed the sixth time. After half a dozen immigration men burst through the door, the plant's largely female work force shrieked and started scattering. Eventually, 36 of them were cornered, most of them in the women...
Political Conspiracy. There the matter would have ended, except that the proprietor of Ramona Foods happens to be Mrs. Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-American businesswoman whom Richard Nixon had just nominated to be the 34th Treasurer of the U.S. George K. Rosenberg, director of the Immigration Service's Los Angeles office and the man who called the raid, said he did not know Mrs. Banuelos' identity until after the raid was over. In any case, noted Rosenberg, he had sent a routine letter to Ramona Foods in August 1969, warning the company to stop employing illegal aliens...
Died. L. Wolf Gilbert, 83, composer of Ramona, The Peanut Vendor, Green Eyes, Lily of the Valley, Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee and dozens more; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...