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In October 1919, a local farmer named Alphonzo Bell, who had smelled something odd one day while drilling a water well, persuaded Standard Oil to come and sink a few test shafts on his farm in Santa Fe Springs, southeast of downtown. On the night of October 30, Bell was awakened by a huge eruption of mud and gas from the well, followed by the

Dad compared himself and Lenny with Gerald and Sara Murphy, socialites who entertained the great artists of the Lost Generation on the French Riviera, and on whom Fitzgerald based Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.

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Irish Catholics were represented by director John Ford, actors James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, and Los Angeles bishop John J. Cantwell. The event was organized by Hollywood leftists Dorothy Parker and Donald Ogden Stewart. Other attendees included screenwriter and author Rupert Hughes, actor Paul Muni, and actress Gloria Stuart.

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