Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisler's troubles did not end when he caught Myers napping. As soon as he crossed the border at Calexico, Calif., he was picked up by immigration authorities. He was allowed to remain in the U.S. only after he had sworn that he had never been a Communist and that he hated Stalin as much as he hated Hitler...
...disappearing 16-year-old brother (TIME, July 7, Sept. 29), was at it again. A week after the student prince materialized in Hollywood (after vanishing from a Washington, D.C. school), he vanished again, this time with brother Mahmoud's Cadillac convertible. Police picked him up in nearby Burbank, Calif., quickly passed him back to Mahmoud, who quickly passed him back to Washington (by air) for a fresh start...
...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
Long Beach, Calif...
...Pebble Beach, Calif., in the 47th U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, all the cheers were for 44-year-old Underdog Johnny Dawson. He had been politely invited not to play in the same tourney 18 years ago because he worked for a sporting-goods firm. By going into the real-estate business, Johnny had in recent years regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point...