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...story on Page One. Soon other tales of brutality came to light. A former state employe charged that a guard's kick had caused the death of another Golden boy last spring. There were stories of beatings, dark cells, bread-&-water punishment at the teen-age reformatory in Buena Vista...
Birth of Bedlam. Strong men and weak, good & bad-from Mormon Elder Sam Brannan to Roger Dearborn Lapham-have tried with varying success to run or rob or manage "The City" since it began life as Yerba Buena 112 years...
...Francisco, the fans gather in the dark Dawn Club, in an Annie Street cellar, to hear the unmuted two-beat Dixieland rhythms of a band that is neither Negro nor old. The eight musicians of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen...
...case without precedent in U.S. Navy history is drawing to a close this week on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay. Fifty U.S. sailors, all of them Negroes, are being tried for mutiny, for which the punishment may be death. The 50 are ammunition handlers who, a few weeks after the explosion of two ammunition-laden ships at Port Chicago (327 killed) refused to load a ship...
Printer v. President Sirs: TIME, April 19: "They listened when he said 'Los que no se obtiente por la buena es negativo' (That which is not obtained by good will is negative)." They probably raised their eyebrows too, if Avila Camacho ever said it that...