Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richmond, Calif...
...Yoshiko Tanigawa, 22, a Nisei girl who spent 20 months at the Tule Lake detention camp during the war, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, went on duty at the Long Beach, Calif. Naval Hospital. She is the U.S Navy's only Japanese-American officer...
...Compton, Calif., a lanky Negro named Lloyd La Beach (Panama's one-man Olympic hope) burned up the cinder path for 200 meters. His time (20.2) knocked one-tenth of a second off the world mark set by Jesse Owens back in 1935. Next day, long-legged Negro Herb McKenley (Jamaica's one-man Olympic hope) ran a dizzy 440 yards. The time (46 flat) chipped three-tenths of a second off his own world's record set a year...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., radio's quiz-witted Phil Baker got a $200 fine, a go-day sentence (suspended) and court orders to mount the water wagon for a year, after he was nabbed at the wheel of a weaving...
...latest blow came with a new suite for string quartet, based on Panamanian folk music. It was given a first performance last fortnight in Los Angeles, but the Los Angeles critics were not there; they had to cover the Ojai (Calif.) music festival where Stravinsky was the guest of honor. What's more, the area around the Still concert was roped off to traffic because of some relay races at the nearby Coliseum. Conditions were not ideal for a premiere, but listeners who struggled in found it worth the effort...