Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold E. Stassen stepped into a Pasadena, Calif, elevator, and too many stylish-stout members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce jammed in after him. The elevator struggled upward a half-story, halted, slid gently down to the basement...
Deep Are the Roots. In Coronado, Calif., Ernest Digweed entered a garden contest, took third place...
...West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
Kaiser has been hauling most of his ore 185 miles from low-grade diggings at Kelso, Calif., the rest 500 miles from Cedar City, Utah. Eagle Mountain, rising naked on the edge of the Mojave Desert, is only 153 miles from Fontana, is rich enough to supply Kaiser with low-cost, high-grade ore for at least 50 years...