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Buck Anderson, who stroked the second place boat last fall, will be favored again to be up among the leaders, with Wagner's crew looked for to push the Californian to the limit. Ewing Walker, Sam Goddard, and Bob Fowler form the nucleus of Anderson's eight, while Captain Shem Gray and Bruce Pirnie give the added zip to Wagner's boatload. Everett Henry, Brown, 3rd, will weigh down the stern of the Anderson octet...
California is proud of Pebble Beach. But it is not proud of the fact that a Californian has never won the Women's golf championship. Californians converged on Pebble Beach last week determined to get the crown from curlyheaded Texan Betty Jameson. Of the 164 entrants, 80 were Californians (including Dancer Ruby Keeler...
Under the sponsorship of a group of student organizations, including the Daily Californian editors, a meeting was recently called to discuss the draft--discussion being still, presumably, one of the rights of citizens of this democracy. Promptly came forth a sharp statement from the office of President Sproul, warning that students who opposed "defending this country" might find themselves deprived of the chance to be "educated by this country...
...Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason, within 18 months...
...pioneer in the small loans field, A. P.'s bank earned $12,000,000 last year, has averaged earnings ten times its new preferred dividend requirements over the past five years. It has 600,000 borrowers, 2,300,000 depositors (one Californian in every three). This week old A. P. Giannini forgot his troubles long enough to make the second speech of his career. Occasion: a banquet in honor of his "70th birthday, given by his 9,000 employes...