Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nimrods. In Durand, Wis., two crestfallen hunters learned that the horned-game they had proudly lashed to their autos were goats. In Oakland, Calif., Stanley Chaconas returned from the hunt with two pheasants, flushed and caught by a dog before he could fire a shot...
Incompatible. In Reno, Nev., nine-year-old runaway Melvin Rogers Lewis Jr. arrived from Oakland, Calif., announced that he had come to get a divorce from his parents...
Died. Dushon John, 67, "king" of Serbian gypsies in the Western U.S.; of uremia; in Oakland, Calif. During an elaborate, jolly funeral, his money, toothbrush and hair oil were also buried, to see him through the journey into the Beyond...
Married. Dean Jagger, 42, cinemactor (Brigham Young, Sister Kenny); and Gloria Ling, 24, secretary to FORTUNE'S executive editor; he for the second time, she for the first; after a Santa Monica, Calif, marriage bureau denied them a license because of Miss Ling's Chinese father (California law prohibits white-Mongolian marriages), in Albuquerque...
...first prefabricated theater in the U.S., designed to do practically every thing for the patron except pay for his ticket, was opened at Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats 1,164 people. Said a brochure handed out to first-nighters: "The instinct of self-preservation is one of the strongest in mankind. No audience can fully relax unless it is assured nothing in the way of accident, fire or earthquake can mar its entertainment." To give this assurance the theater...