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...Heavyweight Champion Jim Jeffries, who lives quietly on his farming and dairy ranch near Burbank, Calif., came out of his shell for the holiday season to serve as the town's official Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Brimming Cup | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Thomas Dudley ("Tommy") Harmon, 29, onetime A.A.F. pilot and All-America halfback (Michigan, 1939-40); and Elyse Knox Harmon, 30; their second child, second daughter; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Kelly Jean. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...false ceiling over the Bond Bar. He holed up every night before closing, emerged after hours to help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wise Beyond Years | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Burbank, Calif, last week, Walt Disney was presented with the 5,000,000th watch to be manufactured with the name and likeness of Mickey Mouse. As he put it among his trophies, Disney smiled at a beaming, moon-faced Manhattan salesman named Kay Kamen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The Mighty Mouse | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Burbank, Calif.'s semiweekly News, which has a four-man news staff, suspected that it was missing some of the town's vital events. Last week, in a front-page notice, it begged: "If you are born, marry, have a baby, die, or some other accident happens, please let us know-not that we give a darn, but most of our readers have a lot of curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Speak Up | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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