Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scullery maid, a cheap Cinderella with no hope of a pumpkin"), Lana moved to Los Angeles with her mother, who went to work in a beauty parlor. One sunny morning, when Lana was a lush 15, she sneaked out of Hollywood High School to play hooky at a Sunset Boulevard soda fountain. A man walked up and said: "How would you like to be in pictures?" Surprisingly, the proposition was on the level...
Their encounter took place in Ciro's, an expensive Sunset Strip night-eyrie. Tone walked in with his wife and her maiden aunt, a Miss Fay Redfield of Cloquet, Minn. Barbara had just returned to town for three personal appearances, two in theaters and one before a federal grand jury which was interested in a dope-peddling murder (she had supplied the suspect's alibi). Franchot stepped to Florabel's table...
...Young Vag cheering on the team from high on the fifty; Vag explaining the game; Vag shouting for Wintergreen; Vag taking a quick nip from his flask to celebrate a touchdown. Vag and Young Vag in the autumn sunset, following the Band out of the Stadium...
High Noon. Sunset prints three editions, often with different copy, for the northern, central and southern parts of the coast. It has also started republishing Sunset articles in book form, and has sold more than 1,300,000 books...
...ideas are so successful. Once, the garden editor recommended a chemical for cleaning fish pools, but neglected to say that the fish should be removed first. Sunset desks were heaped with angry letters from owners of dead fish. Another article suggested a cleaner for waffle irons which, it turned out, removed the finish. When his magazine errs, Lane makes it up to the victims. Says he: "I'll bet I've bought more goldfish and waffle irons than anyone else in the country...