Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ORSON WELLES Hollywood, Calif...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) Alameda, Calif...
...Henry (Mrs. Herbert) Hoover, in a letter to her sons Allan and Herbert Jr., disposed of an estate valued "in excess of $10,000." Filed as a will in San Jose, Calif., her letter declared: "... I have a will somewhere. I have not seen it in years. ... So I will replace it with this. . . . You have been lucky boys to have had such a father and I am a lucky woman to have had my life's trail alongside the paths of three such men and boys. ... To your Daddy I bequeath all my interest and rights...
Died. Arthur Henry Kudner, 53, able Manhattan advertising executive; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles, Calif. He was president of his own firm (eighth largest in point of billing), which he started in 1935 when he resigned from the presidency of Erwin Wasey & Co., taking six big accounts with him (including General Motors and Goodyear). Sloganeer Kudner conceived "Better Buy Buick," "Eyes to the Future, Ears to the Ground" and "Victory Is Our Business" (G.M.'s prewar and wartime mottoes) and "athlete's foot." On his office wall was a framed quotation of the 1936 world's champion...
Died. Yandell Henderson, 70, professor emeritus of physiology at Yale; of an intestinal ailment; in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Henderson was instrumental in the repeal of the 18th Amendment, told Congress in 1932 that it was impossible to get drunk on 4% beer...