It came as no surprise to syndicated...

It came as no surprise to syndicated radio personality Rush Limbaugh when KCBS-TV anchorwoman Bree Walker peppered Mayor Tom Bradley with tough questions the other day, even raising the issue of whether His Honor should resign.

“She stands up to people,” said Limbaugh, recalling when Walker--then Bree Bushaw--was a hard-rock disc jockey in the mid-1970s.

“I was her music director at KUDL in Kansas City--my name was then Jeff Christie,” said Limbaugh, whose current show airs locally on KFI-AM. “She’s a classy lady, but I remember we got in a knock-down, drag-out argument over ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen. I thought it was terrible. She insisted on playing it, and she did.”

In fact, Bushaw / Walker raised the question of Limbaugh’s status, as she later would of Bradley.

“She asked me how I could be music director of the station when I was so conservative,” Limbaugh recalled.

When two women recently bought the Pegasus Restaurant in the Long Beach Harbor area, some regulars wondered if the new bosses would retain the landmark’s custom of outfitting the waitresses in aerobics outfits from 6 a.m. on.

The decision was obvious.

“Oh, no, we couldn’t change the girls’ clothes,” said co-owner Gundi Hall. “The guys would have gone nuts.”

The first time she visited the Pegasus, Hall acknowledged, “I was a little embarrassed” by the scanty outfits. But, she learned, “the girls don’t mind. No one makes a pass at them.”

While the Pegasus’ fashions are famous locally, Hall admitted that the eatery hasn’t become a tourist haunt.

“Mostly,” she said, “we get longshoremen and truck drivers.”

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In honor of the centennial of a school famed for its scientific hi-jinks, we reprise a few of the more notable ones (in addition to the 1987 Hollywood sign alteration). These were culled from the campus publication, “Legends of Caltech”:

1--Measuring their route by laying six dead fish end-to-end over and over, three pledges to a Caltech club calculate that the distance between Pasadena City Hall and the school’s Throop Hall is 5,678 mackerel (1937).

2--Learning that a fellow student needs a car for a Saturday night date, classmates buy a 1923 Model T Ford for $9, take it apart, then reassemble it in his room while he’s out (1940).

3--A wingless F-84 Thunderjet, parked on campus overnight during an Air Force recruitment drive, is hijacked by students, who tow it to the residence of the ROTC commander (1954).

4--The card stunts at the Rose Bowl are secretly reprogrammed so that University of Washington students unwittingly show millions of television viewers a depiction of a Husky with rounded ears and buck teeth (suspiciously resembling a Caltech Beaver), spell out WASHINGTON backward and, of course, spell out CALTECH perfectly (1961).

5--Taking advantage of a McDonald’s drawing that permitted unlimited entries, a band of students enter 1.1 million times. They win 20% of the prizes, including a new car (1975).

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Universal Studios first charged admission in 1915--25 cents for a box lunch and a seat in the stands overlooking the film lots.