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Wednesday, November 14, 1984Part 9 On VIEW Tour of Early City Homes in a Walk on Memory Lane CIooAnyelcSIimcfl Too Secret Too Long Chapman Pincher 'W'i jf 1) I I xi i If f0" fj This book, in accumulating power as its hundreds of pages roll by, becomes at last the most powerful, inroriating, heartbreaking and important single book ever written about spies. It tells about the man who was, in effect, Britain's J. Edgar Hoover, the woman who recruited him for the Soviet GRU, and the awesome devastation they caused over a generation. It has all the trappings of a marvelous novel-exotic settings from Shanghai in the 30's, to Istanbul, Brasil, Beirut; a Hollywood-extravaganza cast of characters-Hoover, Blunt, Fuchs, and the seductive life-and-death intrigues. But it's not a novel.

It's true. If you like spy books or need a gift for someone who does-here's 638 pages of the most satisfying reading you can find. At the head table were the descendants of people who built the fancy abodes, many still gracing St. James Park, Adams Boulevard, Westlake Park and Hancock Park, A tear was shed for the glorious houses that once stood on Bunker Hill, razed for Bankers' Paradise, "In the beginning," Ynez Viole O'Neill began, "the civilized world considered California an island." Then, she told First Century Families at their "Mansions and Manners: Our Homes in Early Los Angeles" luncheon in the Bilt-more's Crystal Ballroom, wise men believed the area was just plains and beaches. In fact, 140 years ago nothing much was here.

Then in 1841 the Workman-Rowland party arrived to establish ranchos in the San Gabriel Valley. Adobes were the style at first, but then, sometimes, they were remodeled into manor houses reminiscent of England. Later came the fine Victorian homes. In minutes, Ynez O'Neill and Judge David A. Workman whisked the attentive audience from homes of the Plaza down major Los Angeles arteries south to West Adams, through St.

James Park to the mansions of Westlake Park and zigzagging to Whittier and back to Vermont. They were highlighting those days when Broadway Street was called Fort, when Angel's Flight rectified the problem of climbing Bunker Hill. First, luncheon chairman Mrs. ST. MARTIN PRESS MARSHA TRAEGER Los Angeles Times David Workman and Mrs.

Richard Hotaling at First Century Families luncheon at. Biltmore. Early Los Angeles homes and manners had the attention of Ynez Viole O'Neill, left, Judge Los Angeles Broadway Plaza; Century City Shopping Center; I'nivcrsity Milage; Faglc Rock Beverly Hills Heverly Center Culver City ux Hills Mall Santa Monica Santa Monica Place Ibrranci Del Amo Fashion Center; Old Ibwne Mall Glendale (ilemlale (ialleria Pasadena The Plaza Pasadena Westchester Sepulvccla Blvd. Sherman Oaks Sherman Oaks Fashion Square Northridge Northridge Shopping Center Canoga Park 'lopanga Plaza Woodland Hills The Promenade Panorama City Panorama Mall Cerritos Cerritos Regional Mall hikewood Lakcwooil Shopping Center Westminster Westminster Mall Richard A. Hotaling (she was Elizabeth Duque) had introduced the head table.

Most there saw their families' old residences in the slide show deftly pulled together by head table. (Capt. Hancock gave Christine Shirley, her son William the city the land on which the Los L. Vail III and the speakers. Angeles County Art Museum and Mrs.

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