Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berkeley, Calif...
Frank Sinatra plunged into the water off San Pedro, Calif., rescued a three-year-old boy from drowning, bashfully disappeared before the newspaper photographers arrived...
Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...
Married. Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 27, trim, toothy radio & cinema singer; and Hyatt Robert Dehn, 34, head of Los Angeles' Defense Housing Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Died. Charles Gilman Norris, 64, sociological novelist whose unfailingly topical themes included women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...