Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...
...Captain Kathleen B. Nash, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Colonel J. W. Durant of Falls Church, Va., whom Captain Nash had just married; Major David F. Watson of Burlingame, Calif.; and a prowling corporal who had discovered the cache under bottle rows of rare old wine. Both the Durants were on terminal leave...
...trying to change the geography of a valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...
...steel deal, Kaiser hopes to end one of his prime headaches. Once promised steel by U.S. and National Steel, he has had little delivered so far. Fortnight ago he was forced to start shipping steel to Willow Run from his own plant at Fontana, Calif., an expensive procedure. Now he plans to ship only enough from Fontana for 15,000 cars, expects to be getting steel from Portsmouth by the time these are finished. This should give him plenty of time to put the deal through...
Tracked Down. In a divorce suit in San Jose, Calif., Sam Irwin claimed he suspected shenanigans between his wife and the hired man, soon got his proof: coming & going footprints in the flour he had cunningly sprinkled on the floor between their rooms...