Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories of significant trivia drew more mail recently than anything we have printed in some time. It was the story of Lucy Hicks, leading cook, confidante, philanthropist, and bordello-boss of Oxnard, Calif. The sharp eye of one of our editors found the bones of the story tucked obscurely away in a Pacific Coast paper. As TIME told it fully for the first time, Lucy, after 30 years, to the astonishment and embarrassment of her fellow townsmen, was found to be a man. "Her" supreme accolade probably came from the TIME subscribers who nominated "her" for TIME...
Double Birdie. In Fresno, Calif., a golf ball lustily swatted by C. S. Swanson smacked a blackbird, dropped four feet from the cup, was holed for a birdie...
About-Face. In El Segundo, Calif., Undertaker John D. Flanagan uncertainly officiated at an unscheduled birth in his private ambulance...
When California fruit & vegetable farmers decided to try shipping by air to the East Coast, they needed a man who understood both marketing and aviation. They got such a man in 42-year-old Ralph Myers, produce farmer and private flyer of Salinas, Calif., who delights in flamboyant frontier clothes and his nickname "Cocky...
Hollywood Pin-Up. In going after the big buyers, Alcoa was not neglecting little markets. Typical was the "Hollywood Pin-Up," an aluminum clothespin. Its inventors were two neighbors in Van Nuys, Calif., who got tired of hearing their wives grumble about ersatz clothespins. Alcoa helped them perfect the pin, licensed them to use its color process, "Alumilite," at a nominal royalty. Del E. Webb, contractor and co-owner of the New York Yankees, financed them. Last week, the Del E. Webb Products Co. was busy shipping out 80,000 pins a day, expects to use 2,500,000 pounds...