Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Light-Fingered. In Palm City, Calif., someone stole a telephone pole...
CHARLES OVERILL San Diego, Calif...
...reporters scribbled quietly and intently. They were jammed into a small room in the grey stucco auditorium at Santa Cruz, Calif., and Ohio's Republican Senator Robert A. Taft was not a man to raise his voice. Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table. But for a fraction of a second, every man in the room looked up and stared as if the Senator had just pulled out his penknife, opened it, and absently swallowed...
Wobbling Rabbit. The man who had made it work is a well-muscled, pigeontoed, 28-year-old rookie from Pasadena, Calif., who, along with Glenn Davis and Babe Didrikson Zaharias, is one of the great all-round athletes...
...Georgia, a group of outraged men formed the League of Broke Husbands, hoped to get "30,000 American husbands to hold that hemline." In Louisville, 1,265 Little Below the Knee Club members signed a manifesto against any change in the old knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started up and she had to run a block before the bus stopped and she was freed...