Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lesson. In Oakland, Calif., a 15-year-old correspondence school student: (how to be a detective) gave himself up to detectives, confessed staging two unsuccessful holdups to get money to pay for his lessons...
From the office of Lieut. Colonel Frank T. McCabe at Burbank, Calif, came World War II's prize exhibit of supersecrecy. To news publications, Colonel McCabe whispered behind his hand...
Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...
These four Sisters of St. Joseph got back to their mother house at Orange Calif. last week after a long journey, via Guadalcanal. In 1940 they began nursing and teaching on Buka Island in the Solomons. Last year Jap air raids often forced them to take to the jungle...