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...Angeles has its own brand of magnificence. It is amazingly clean, awesomely spacious. It has ramshackle houses, but in comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
...drawings in last week's exhibition-showing two windblown cuties on the Coney Island boardwalk-was done overlooking a Vermont stone quarry. "It would have made a beautiful landscape," Marsh recalled, "but not for me to paint. A couple of farmers peered over my shoulder while I worked, wondering where the devil I saw the invisible girls...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7 (APE)--Five consecutive grand slam home runs, two fielder's choices, and a windblown popfly double down the center field foul line pushed across 23 CRIMSON runs in the last of the ninth inning and gave the Crimeds their usual 23-2 win Friday over several armored denizens of the Bow Street Aviary before a capacity crowd of 12,345 baffled fans in Radcliffe's Annexwam...
...radio's hierarchy, nothing is much lower than a summer replacement. Few performers make the grade from an easy summer show to the rigorous winter competition. This week a comedian made it. Jack Paar, an unpredictable young man (29) with a windblown sense of humor, was kept on by the American Tobacco Co. and given cozy quarters (9:30 to 10 p.m.-between Abbott & Costello and Bing Crosby) on ABC's Wednesday night program powerhouse...
...Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan magazine fiction-which is, in fact, what this novel...