Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corners and in Chicago bars are left to individual enterprise. For the climax, on stage at Medinah Temple, a new Imperial Potentate (sometimes referred to as the "Pote") would be named. This year he was no less a person than Harold Clayton Lloyd, of Burchard, Neb. and Los Angeles, Calif., better known as the comedian hero of such Jazz Age films as The Freshman, Safety Last and Grandma...
Past performance meant nothing. Mike Ferentz, the Long Beach (Calif.) bartender who won last year's championship, got knocked out in the first round. Reporters, who set up press headquarters in the ladies' locker room, were soon calling the tournament "anybody's open...
...western edge of San Bernardino, Calif., just past the tight ranks of eucalyptus trees which shelter the city from desert-bound winds, Mayor James E. Cunningham this week helped unload the first lumber for a new housing project. It was one of this year's few U.S. developments of privately built homes intended primarily for Negroes (316 two-bedroom houses to sell for only $6,450 each...
Burned Up. In Santa Monica, Calif., police set up new, all-metal "No Fires Allowed" beach signs, explained that too many picnickers had used the old wooden signs for kindling...
Indian Summer. In Menlo Park, Calif., Charles E. Brown, 82, had to call off his 62nd wedding-anniversary party when he came down with mumps...