Word: berkeley
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Fifteen minutes from San Francisco, between the Bay and the Berkeley foothills, a new $2,000,000 race track called the Golden Gate Turf Club has been opened by a group of California turfmen, headed by President Harry Brown of the Interocean Steamship Corp. Three years ago such a venture would have been considered quicksand suicide: there were scarcely enough high-grade thoroughbreds in the U. S. to keep two big California tracks going during the winter. But Californians have recently gone in for breeding...
Like a Fuller Brush salesman, Mr. Madigan has been canvassing the little towns behind the Berkeley hills, touting his track to Lions clubs and other horse-hungry groups. Among the novelties he touted: a towering, three-tiered grandstand (only one in the U. S.), with a clear view of the finish line from every one of its 13,000 seats; a saddling paddock in front instead of behind the grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island...
...Alley always keeps only a jump behind the international situation. The preoccupation of songwriters with U. S. patriotism put three flag-waving songs on Variety's best-selling list.* The assault on England has boosted A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half...
...30Review of the U.T. 7:35 Interview with Anne Corio 8:00 "Concert Master" 8:45 The Berkeley Sisters; Songs 9:00 "Hot off the Record": new releases 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" 10:45 Crimson News and Interviews
Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...