Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passenger was Lieut. Colonel James A. Gunn III of Kelseyville, Calif., who had been shot down over the oil fields of Ploesti-"the hottest target on the face of the earth"-two weeks before. He was one of more than 3,000 U.S. airmen downed in Rumania in 13 months of raids. Two-thirds had been killed. But 1,101, plus 25 Britons, were still alive in prison camps around Bucharest. They were well treated but they chafed...
...slim, black-haired Stanley Hiller is a veteran inventor. An inventor's son (his father flew a plane of his own design in 1911), Stanley began to tinker with tools at five. At ten he built a toy car which he drove around the streets of Berkeley, Calif.; at twelve he invented a miniature racing auto 19 inches long. Powered by a gas engine and guided by a cable, it sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running a $100,000 midget racing auto business...
Married. Freeman Gosden, 45, philosophic, long-suffering "Amos" of radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy (back on the air this month); and Jane Stoneham, 21 daughter of the New York Giants' late owner, Charles Stoneham; he for the second time; in Scotia, Calif...
...estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif...
G.I.s returning from overseas duty began arriving at 35 hotels in Miami Beach, three others in Santa Barbara, Calif. Within a fortnight, others in Asheville, N.C., Lake Placid, N.Y. and Hot Springs, Ark. will be opened. (Total capacity: 17,-ooo-less than 1% of Army Ground Force and Service Force troops now overseas...