Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, Calif...
Crime. In Stockton, Calif., police followed a string leading from a burglarized fruit store to a rooming house, arrested William Briscoe, to whose shoe the string had stuck. In St. Paul, officers of the Moose Lodge learned their safe had been stolen when police returned it. In Cleveland, Richard Pearse slept undisturbed in his car while thieves took three wheels and a spare, removed his wrist watch from his arm, one wallet from the inside of his coat, another from his hip pocket. In Denver, burglars left a note in Edward V. Dunklee's house: "Sir: Your beer...
Less kiddish Jackie Coogan, 27, was graduated as a glider pilot, made a staff sergeant, at the Army Air Forces training field at 29 Palms, Calif...
Married. Cinemactress Norma Shearer, 38; and San Francisco-born Skier Martin Arrouge, 28, ex-instructor at Sun Valley; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He formerly taught her son and daughter skiing. She is the widow of Cineproducer Irving Thalberg, who left her and their children nearly $4,500,000. Before the marriage Skier Arrouge signed an agreement waiving his rights to a share of her estate...
Impulse. Over Camp Elliott, Calif., Lieut. William F. Schroeder, Navy medical officer, watched ten paratroopers leap from a low-flying plane, could not resist the urge to jump too. He was transferred to paratroop service...