Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monterey, Calif...
Worldly Goods. In Berkeley, Calif., James D. Morton explained to the judge why his traffic fine had not been paid: he had given his wife the money to do it, and she had used it for a down payment on a divorce...
...request of their parents, the ashes of Lieut. Harwood Sharp of El Cerrito, Calif, and Radioman James Langiotti of Orlando, Fla., who were captured and executed by the Japanese after they had fought together as a bomber team through seven months of the Pacific war, were scattered over the waters five miles east of Hawaii's Diamond Head...
Edgar Rice Burroughs, biographer of Tarzan, drove his Buick convertible out of the driveway of his home in Tarzana, Calif., was thereupon struck by another Buick convertible which had just been struck by yet another Buick convertible. The autos were injured; 72-year-old Burroughs was not scratched...
...acre estate in San Marino, Calif., in sight of the Sierra Madres, Huntington built two immense homes for his treasures. There, in a hall lined with million-dollar Boucher tapestries, he held many a midnight session with Rosenbach and Sir Joseph Duveen, planning collecting coups. Then, in 1919, Huntington deeded the whole kit & caboodle to the public. "The ownership of a fine library," he observed, "is the swiftest and surest way to immortality...