A Stern View of America Ward Cannel
The essay notes Americans have grown taller and heavier since the early 20th century while seating in public venues widens. It cites Yankee Stadium 19 inch seats from 1927, Candlestick Park 22 inch seats, Met Opera replacing 20 inch with 22 inch seats, and La Scala with much smaller seats. Anthropologists and labor data link taller frames to longer desk time and school hours. Theater codes trend toward 22 to 24 inch seats.
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Yankees
San Francisco
Candlestick Park
New York Metropolitan Opera Company
Met
la Scala Opera House
Milan
Italy
American Seating Co
Fridge Cause Of Theater Price Rise Report
The story notes higher theater and movie ticket costs, citing showmen who say modern comforts and seating changes in Cincinnati have raised expenses. A malfunction in a refrigerator allegedly caused a fire in a seating area, leading to $150 in damages and prompting aisle spacing to be adjusted.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Muthers
Recans
Frigerator
Oldest Known Human Bones Found at Olduvai Gorge
National Geographic expedition led by L. S. B. Leakey uncovers bones of a 11-year-old child and an adult at Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika. Finds suggest a lineage older than Nutcracker Man with a larger brain case and modern-like teeth. artifacts may predate previously dated tools. Jonathan Leakey discovered remains nearby the Nutcracker Man site.
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Washington
Tanganyika
Olduvai Gorge
National Geographic Society
L. S. B. Leakey
Leakey
Zinjanthropus
Officer Pays Postage Then Lost Purse Repaid With Bounced Check
In Barstow California an officer used his own money to cover the $2 postage for mailing a lost purse to its owner. He later received a check from the woman which bounced, leaving the officer out the postage and facing the issue.
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Barstow
Calif
UPI
Walter Lentz
Attorney General's Office
Los Angeles
Bugsy Siegel Falls to Gunfire in Beverly Hills Home
UPI report recalls Bugsy Siegel’s assassination on June 20 1947 in Virginia Hill’s Beverly Hills home. A masked gunman fired through a window as Siegel and allies dined, leaving his body and a trail of unresolved motives including Flamingo casino finances and debts to Del Webb Construction.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
UPI
Benjamin Siegel
Bugsy
Ben the Boss
Benny the Bug
Alabama
Virginia Hill
Siegel
New York
Murder, Inc
Davenport
Chicago
Flamingo Club
Phoenix
del Webb
New York Yankees
Las Vegas
Webb
del E. Webb Construction
George Raft
Harry Schachter
Harry Greenberg
Wendy Barrie
Hollywood
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Ward Cannel
York
NEA
Martin Kornbluth
Debs
Bugsy Siegel
Robert W. Flick
Smiley
Miss Hill
Jerri Mason
Santa Monica
Vancouver
B.C
Mexico
Pauley Gibbons
Benny
Gamson
Gibbons
George Levin
Raft
California
Hell's Kitchen
Lucky Luciano
Dutch Schultz
Louis Lepke
Louis
Amberg
Bug
Kenneth
Fiberglas
Killian's
Res
London Plat Arm
Killian
Davno
Sof Bec
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