Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Calif...
...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
...Carmel, Calif., the Russian Inn changed its name to Ocean Inn "for business reasons...
Most of the 1,600-odd known asteroids (small-fry planets) revolve in orderly orbits between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. But last week an asteroid was off its reservation and rapidly approaching the orbit of the earth. Astronomer C.A. Wirtanen of Lick Observatory, Calif., who spotted it, figured that it was some two miles in diameter (about the size of the Matterhorn broken off at its base) and big enough to give the earth a sizable jolt...
Born. To Edward F. ("Ed") Gardner, 43, radio's "Archie," arch-bartender and manager of Duffy's Tavern, and second wife Simone Hegeman Gardner, 34: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Stephen Anthony. Weight...