Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to your article "Pioneers" under Miscellany [TIME, June 9], I would say that the two Long Beach, Calif, policemen were about four years too late to be classed as pioneers for making an amphibious arrest of a tipsy driver, or should we say coxswain...
...airplane speed record returned to the U.S. last week after almost ten years in Europe. Veteran Army Test Pilot Colonel Albert Boyd, 40, made four three-kilometer (1.86 mi.) runs, with and against a light breeze, in a jet-propelled Lockheed P-80R over Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. His average speed: 623.8 m.p.h., only 7.8 m.p.h. faster than Britain's record, hung...
Notes & Bars. In San Quentin, Calif., Warden Clinton Duffy, hoping to keep the boys happy with a disc jockey program broadcast over the prison public address system, named among available selections: Time on My Hands, They Didn't Believe Me, Till the End of Time, I'd Do It All Over Again...
...Forest Hills, N.Y., Violinist Stephan Hero, having settled his two children in his own folks' home, asked for and got police protection against "possible acts of reprisal." He had flown them from the Beverly Hills (Calif.) home of his father-in-law, Pianist Jose Iturbi, who used to fight him for the children's custody. (Mrs. Hero committed suicide last year.) Pianist Iturbi, in far-off Paris at the moment, had nothing to say to the press. Sighed his manager: "Mr. Iturbi is always haunted by his son-in-law's stories...
Died. J. Warren Kerrigan, 67, whose small fortune made (and shrewdly saved) as an early (1911 to 1923) cinematinee idol allowed him to spend his last years pleasantly puttering around his garden; of pneumonia; in Balboa, Calif...