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On
the Waterfront
IT SOUNDS RIGHT: Mira Costa band members were taught to read and write music, but evidently not English.
CELEBRITY ARREST: When ex-presidential brother Roger Clinton was arrested for an alleged DUI (see story page 8), the HBPD fielded press calls from Paris, London and Bogota, Columbia, as well as every LA television station, CNN, Fox News, the "Inside Edition" program and three of the supermarket tabloids…
OUCH! Lest we miss the presidential-pardon angle of the story, the HBPD press release on Roger Clinton was headlined "Pardoned Brother Arrested." For the record, the release was prepared after police received a call from the press, signaling, of course, that many more would soon follow...
IRONY ALERT: Who says the tobacco people don’t have a heart? Smokers enjoying Natural American Spirit cigarettes will soon see specially marked packs with full-color cards of endangered species. The company will even donate money to the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation. That’s good news for the humpback whale and the Siberian Tiger, but there was no immediate comment from the endangered American lung…
I AM WOMAN: The Women’s Club of Hermosa Beach boasts some 95 members, all female except one — a councilman from a nearby city who has a friend in the organization. "I think he joined so he gets to spend more time with her," a club insider said...