Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Southern California Dental Hospital stood as a glittering, $1,750,000 glass-and-marble monument to Hay's initiative. On Sunset Boulevard, hard by Los Angeles' "hospital row," it is the nation's (perhaps the world's) first hospital built exclusively for dentistry. And it was as empty as a freshly prepared dental cavity. Hay's planning had foreseen everything-except how to get patients in. Dental cowardice is a common ailment...
...playing opposite. Result: no one noticed Rogers (says Anne: "I don't know where the kid is now"), but Fox signed Anne. Of course Mamma went along to Hollywood-on Anne's first plane ride. She had to see her daughter settled in a small Sunset Boulevard apartment before she felt it safe to return to Macy...
...last week, a teleprinter in the Los Angeles Mirror-News chattered excitedly with a strange bit of copy. "The following," began a story punched out 6 miles west, "is released by Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4614 Sunset Boulevard. Attention city desks. Advance release. 'Mistletoe is for kissing, not for eating.' " Thereafter followed 200 words, drafted by Childrens Hospital, to the effect that mistletoe is poisonous when taken internally. What was remarkable about the story was not the toxicity of mistletoe but the transmission. One of the publicity man's newer gimmicks in his tireless assault...
When the sun set, the balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). After an air crash, three men and three women are washed ashore on a desert island. Nothing short of a thermonuclear bomb could upset that sort of paradise-but that is precisely what happens...