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Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
...reincarnation of Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known as "the messiah in plus fours." In 1929 Mrs. Besant tried to start a Theosophist colony at her Happy Valley ranch in California, to breed super-Americans. She said the Califor nia climate favored such an experiment, but she eventually gave it up. Like all Theosophists, she believed that she had several bodies which helped her in her work. Before she died (she was burned on a funeral pyre), Annie Besant said: "I shall return immediately in a Hindu body...
...skid had apparently not helped his neck-&-neck rival Bob Taft (whose press secretary last week explained that Taft was not an "active" candidate). Despite an awed respect for Taft's mind, the pros were as conscious as ever of his lack of political sex appeal. Said a Califor nia GOPster: "Taft is a fine and capable man. If it was a matter of hiring the President of the U.S., he'd be the man for the job. But we're still electing Presidents...
...Francis Poulenc) was in the French Army, another (Georges Auric) was sticking it out in Southern France, and Swiss Citizen Honegger had fled to Switzerland. Milhaud. who had been vacationing in Provence, packed up what belongings he could carry and started for the U. S. where Califor nia's Mills College had offered him a job next fall lecturing on musical composition...
...Francisco courtroom two wom en glared at one another last week. One was pretty Mrs. James Rolph III, daughter-in-law of the late Governor of Califor nia. The other was buxom, bespectacled Mrs. Frank Carreaud, Texas turfwoman. What brought them to court was one of the strangest suits ever laid before a jury...