Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: If all of TIME were as bad as some of it is, it would be rotten. But if all of TIME were as good as some of it is, it-well, it couldn't be. Palo Alto, Calif. E. C. OAKLEY...
Died. Dr. Ira Remsen, 81, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, discoverer of saccharin, in Carmel, Calif...
...McKinley sailed it out in December and were crippled by a storm. Before the Grey Ghost drifted ashore on Santa Catalina Island, Fishermen McKinley was dead and Fisherman Kelly was, by agreement, a cannibal, still alive but half-crazed (TIME, Jan. 3, 10). Fisherman George McShallis of San Pedro, Calif., salvaged the Grey Ghost and sailed to San Clemente to ply his trade...
Dutch New Guinea. Professor Matthew W. Stirling of Berkeley, Calif., and comrades docked last week in Boston after a 15-month pilgrimage to the heart of Dutch New Guinea (between Australia and the Equator). Under Smithsonian auspices, and with the aid of admiring Dutch officers, they had flown a Liberty-motored seaplane to the upper reaches of the Mamberamo River, alighted and made friends with a myth. The latter was a most genteel, non-cannibalistic, Stone-age race of pygmies whose existence in the mountain fastnesses had been rumored but never proved. After some flitting through the undergrowth and bird...
Died. Frederik Forrest Peabody, 67, onetime (1907-17) President of Cluett, Peabody & Co. (Arrow collars); following a cerebral hemorrhage; at Santa Barbara, Calif...