A map, a map, my Kingdom for a MAP! A good map, or detailed route slip, is a neccessity for any recreational road bicyclist intent on having an enjoyable bicycling experience, whether it is in the local area of the cyclist, or in another city, county, state, or country. Hybrid Road Bike with years of experience and a zillion miles under her saddle: I wonder if he plans on having me ride all those? Inexpensive Beach Cruiser still barely tested on the trail: Hey Lady, better you than me

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Elizabeth Yeaman (and me) are busy on other projects, so part of a Jimmy Starr column from 1939 will fill in. Jimmy was the long-time entertainment editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, a Hearst paper. gdh 1/6/1939 EHE Jimmy Starr Understand Mae West and Paramount are again cooking up a deal for her to return as a star. …. Romance plays an all-important part in Hollywood, even in the actual production of the romantic stories put on the screen. Annabella, zingy little Frenc

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According to the New York Sun’s Josh Gerstein, a Sikh-American fundraiser for Hillary Clinton scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 18, has run into trouble. From “Sikhs-for-Clinton Fund-Raiser Scuttled for ‘Security Reasons’:” A $1-million fund-raiser Sikhs were planning to hold in Bakersfield, Calif. on Sunday morning for Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign has been abruptly canceled, or at least postponed, people familiar with the event said today. The invitations said both Mrs. Clinton and Presi

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Today we get a jump to the future, EY from 1937! g 10/2/1937 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman This is the saga of Milton Bren, the man now propelling the destinies of the Hal Roach Studio. He produced Topper, and shortly will be making pictures with Ronald Colman, Brian Aherne and perhaps Margaret Sullavan. Last March he took his office at the studio, and within a month he had revolutionized the lot. He changed its appearance as well as its spirit. No one now doubts that the change is a good one. Six mon

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