Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Game. Dowling's style of cartooning came from famed retired Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling. A Nebraska-born banker's son, Dowling met Ding at 16 and patterned his cartoons on Ding's from then on. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley ('28) and worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. He started to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, but after a month was advised to go out and work on newspapers. He got a job as an artist for the Associated Press...
...good deal of the light and power of British Roman Catholicism emanates from an undistinguished-looking church and a drab, red brick building close by London's Berkeley Square. The church is officially called the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the building is headquarters of the English Jesuits, but both together are much better known as Farm Street. Farm Street's back door is the gateway through which pass the more notable British converts to Catholicism...
Later, as a deputy city attorney for Oakland, deputy and district attorney for Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda) and attorney general of California, he showed no signs of terror in or out of court. He was a relentless prosecutor, convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, chased grafters out of office and into prison. But he drew no particular joy from his victories in criminal cases. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...
Poet Robert Frost, 78, whose verses sing the praises of simple living and hard work (The Axe-Helve), delivered some prosy philosophy in Berkeley, Calif.: "I never thought much of work. I'm not industrious. I have nothing to 'retire' from. My life has been one long vacation." Of some of his compatriots who have fled the U.S. through the years, in search of new artistic freedoms. Frost said: "(I never felt the call to be an expatriate. But I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell...
...opening period, after the ball changed hands twice, a Berkeley pass from center went awry, and the Funsters recovered on the home team 15. Larry Boies scored on a run off his own right end, and a pass from Jack Brophy to Ron Peyton was good for the extra point...