Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Politics. "The difference between Harry and Norman," says one old-time Angeleno, "is that Harry sat in his office and ruled this city like a king. Norman doesn't rule; he isn't interested in ruling. What he wants is to become an institution." Yet in a town where the Times is one of the few enduring institutions, Norman Chandler knows better than to try to wield an overpowering political club. Today's Los Angeles is too amorphous for one man to rule, one newspaper to command,* or even one political organization to anneal. The Times itself...
...Assistant. Serene as a smogless moment in the city, Buffie and Norman start their day with a swim in the Chandler pool behind the square, concrete-block family mansion in the Hancock Park section of town. By 8:30 a.m. Norman rolls out his black Mercedes 300, heads off to the Times building five miles away, where he imperturbably juggles the deskload of problems that reach out from all his financial and civic connections...
...glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club. The avenue's two 100-ft. towers, six reflecting pools...
Shake a Fugue. Farmingdale's Band Director Marshall Brown, 36, is the writer of more than 200 pop songs (Seven Lonely Days, Banjo's Back in Town), a former trombone and bass player and the holder of a graduate degree in music from Columbia. Hired to teach instrumental music in Farmingdale, he persuaded the high school five years ago to let him weed out the best players from the concert band and train them as a jazz group. "I felt," he says, "that the standard band repertory was too limited and that we were neglecting the most important...
...majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...