Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Album. In London, Angus Harper declared that he had laced the family butter with slug poison, just to "annoy" his in-laws. In Newhall, Calif., Mrs. Nettie M. Weismeyer said that one reason why she had shot her husband was that he used bad grammar...
Soft Pickings. In Folsom, Calif., someone forged two wardens' names and cashed checks stolen from the state penitentiary...
National Pastime. In Benicia, Calif., Mrs. Exorah Tucker, 67, was treated for injuries she suffered while playing baseball. In Zanesville, Ohio, Charles King, 80, broke his hip at batting practice...
...swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence Davison, a "gypsy" horseman who taught him the ABCs of being a jockey...
Married. Diana Wanger, 19, willowy, blonde-daughter of erstwhile blonde Cinemactress Joan Bennett (by her first husband; adopted by her third, Producer Walter Wanger) ; and John Hardy Anderson, 30, airplane-parts manufacturer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...