Miscellaneous News.

There is a reason for those hillside letters adorning the hills surrounding the Truckee Meadows, and it has nothing to do with airplane navigation.



Here is more information about the hillside letters:

These monograms, usually of respectable antiquity, are part of community and landscape history. To some extent they reflect the spirit of the time when most were constructed, before environmental preservation and esthetics became concerns in our culture. Of the nearly 250 letters mapped, virtually all have been produced by student groups and represent their institutions. The letters remain a conspicuous and durable part of the identity of many communities, fortifying institutional allegiances and the sense of place. Occasionally they arouse antipathies among those who are offended by the intrusion of the human hand on often dramatic scenery. However, for travelers in the arid West the letters are "anchors to the eye," adding diversity and interest to the natural beauty of the landscape.

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As somebody has experienced what rats are like, this had to be unbearable.

Make sure you watch the video.
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The water is cresting in Iowa City.
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Doris Day's image might have been squeaky clean image, but her much of her own life was a mess:

She went to see Levy's business partners at Century Artists, Richard Dorso and Marty Melcher, and Levy was forced to relocate to New York to run the firm's office there to avoid her pressing charges.

But no sooner was Levy gone than Marty Melcher moved in on her - and she started sleeping with him, too, as well as teaching him about Christian Science.

So she was now seeing Marty Melcher, George Weidler, Jack Carson - and her handsome co- star in another film, Steve Cochran, boyfriend of none other than Joan Crawford, who would always hate Doris for stealing her man.

Cochran was a notorious womaniser, whose formidable vital statistics had earned him the Hollywood nickname 'Mr King Size'. As if this wasn't enough, Doris was also sleeping with one of the openly gay bit-part actors from the musical The West Point Story, and was involved with yet another star, a certain Ronald Reagan.

No wonder Oscar Levant said what he said about knowing her before she was a virgin.