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...Pages. Along its lower reaches, the Colorado forms the boundary between California and Arizona, and since the early 1920s the two states have been quarreling over the division of the waters. The dispute almost came to Wild West gunplay in 1934, when the Governor of Arizona sent state militiamen up the river on a scow to halt work on a dam that was being constructed to divert water to Los Angeles. Three times in the 1930s, Arizona unsuccessfully brought suit against California in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1952 Arizona sued again. The Supreme Court assigned Simon H. Rifkind...
Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
...Buick and usually does the driving-but he has a chauffeur to answer the car's radiotelephone. An expert yachtsman, Jacob skippered his 59.4-ft. yawl Refanut to victory in last year's 350-mile Baltic race. Marcus was Sweden's tennis champion in the 1920s and is still an expert player; he also excels at pingpong...
During the last ten years Le Corbusier has also designed Chandigarh, the new capital city of India's Punjab province, and large superblock apartment houses in Marseilles and Nantes; these three projects embody the radical concepts of city planning which Le Corbusier first developed in the 1920s...
...Afraid. A Swede, Jacobsson was one of those rare men (less rare in Sweden than elsewhere) who served no country, but the world. He began his career as an international civil servant in the 1920s with the League of Nations, later became chief of the Monetary and Economics department of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel-a post he resigned in 1956 to take over at I.M.F., then a relatively unimportant institution...