Word: calif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finicky collegians started more appetizing games. At San Jose (Calif.) State College, for example, Jack Baldwin wagered he could catch and kiss 20 co-eds in 30 minutes, fell six short. Soon San Francisco State College's Marshall Blum claimed a record: 40 kisses in five minutes. At New York University Co-ed Dorothy McDonald kissed 36 boys in four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror...
...Ontario, Calif., Mrs. lola Martin stepped out of her mother's house, heard a clatter on the roof, was almost hit by twelve perch which slid off the eaves. Overhead a flock of cranes flapped hurriedly away...
...Francisco, Calif...
With two ham sandwiches and a jug of coffee, he took off from Burbank, Calif. in one of his two-seaters, climbed his heavily loaded craft to 12,000 ft. and headed east. Averaging 30 miles to the gallon, he kept his Monocoupe on top of an overcast most of the way, kept himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Teacher Hildegarde Case set out to prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...