Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BING CROSBY Hollywood, Calif...
...Said the chairman of the Long Beach (Calif.) collection committee: "Next thing I expect to see is an aluminum leg." Next thing he saw was an aluminum leg, donated by a one-legged veteran of World...
...final Riggs met the man who beat McNeill-Ted Schroeder, National Doubles champion (with Jack Kramer) from Glendale, Calif. Schroeder, who a few years ago was good for a kid, is now much better than that. He plays a hard-driving game that will take him further than he has come. In his match with Riggs he was a slugger against a boxer. Schroeder seemed to be still tired from his match the day before with Wayne Sabin, the man who beat Parker...
Died. Howard Harding Jones, 55, quiet-mannered, unspectacular coach of the West's most spectacular football team, the Trojans of U.S.C.; at North Hollywood, Calif. Brother of Yale's once famed T. A. D. Jones, he went to work on the Trojans in 1925, transformed them from something second-rate into "the West's best." Their record under his coaching: 121 games won, 36 lost, 13 tied...
...erratic five-year-old Big Pebble; the $75,000 Gold Cup Handicap; beating Paperboy and Mioland, the favorite; at Hollywood Park, Calif. Big Pebble was just 1/5 of a second over the track's 1¼-mile record...