Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claremont, Calif...
Last week, after 17 months on the shelf, Ed Kennedy had a new job: managing editor of the Santa Barbara, Calif. News-Press (circ. 18,000). Publisher T. M. Storke, 70, had turned down 100 applicants for the post before he chose Kennedy. Beamed Storke, 44 years an A.P. member: "Mr. Cooper . . . praised Kennedy very highly...
...noon the next day. You could get a bear roast in Denver if you knew the right party. And all over the U.S. people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck up the road with his automobile and lopped off its head with...
Until recently most airmen believed that the problem of supersonic flight was tough, but eventually crackable. Last week they were muttering doubts. U.S. Army Air Forces at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif, had postponed their scheduled attempt to break the British-held speed record (616 m.p.h.). The British themselves were poking into hedgerows, looking for further bits of Geoffrey de Havilland's Swallow, which mysteriously came apart in mid-air (TIME, Oct. 7). Unofficial reports indicated that the Swallow had reached 650 m.p.h. in level flight before it disintegrated. This figure, many airmen now feared, might be close...
Bright Prospects. But there was no particular hurry. On a 160-acre tract of deep country near Oakland, Calif., O'Neill and his wife spent their first years of liberty designing and building a big house as beautiful as their prospects. They christened it Tao House. * In 1935, O'Neill began to block out his massive cycle of plays. Every day he worked from about 8 in the morning until about 1 :30, writing as a rule quite freely and surely, in his elegant, complex, microscopic hand. Carlotta, often with the help of a magnifying glass, typed...