Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claremont, Calif...
Girl Trouble. In Palo Alto, Calif., 100-lb. Mrs. Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...
...Santa Monica, Calif., Bing Crosby, 43 and balding, entered a hospital for a checkup the day after U.S. movie exhibitors* voted him box-office champion of the year-as he had been voted the three previous years. Next-most-magnetic, reported the exhibitors, was blonde Betty Grable, who also sings. Third best crowd-puller: Ingrid Bergman, even though no new Bergman movie was released all year...
...secret, said Bill Mirise, was "a desire on both sides to get along. This plan would have worked in Chicago and saved a lot of trouble." Last week, it was working well enough in Denver to be copied in Pueblo, Colo, and Bakersfield, Calif...
Married. Alison Stilwell, 26, Peking-born artist, daughter of the late General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell; and Air Force Lieut. Colonel William Roderick Cameron, 27; in Carmel, Calif...