Word: californianism
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...Daily Californian...
...David Freeman of Pasadena, 1938 national junior tennis champion: the U. S. badminton championship; for the second successive year; smashing onetime (1937-38) Titleholder Walter Kramer of Detroit in the final, 15-4, 15-4; at Seattle. Another young Californian, Evelyn Boldrick of San Diego, won the women's singles-making California look like the future kindergarten for badminton as well as tennis...
...Californian, nor am I a psychiatrist. I am one who suffered conditions as bad as the Okies for 15 years of my life-I wrote about it in the Atlantic, in the Nation, and in a book. Nor am I jealous because my book [We Sagebrush Folks'] was a best lender and not a best seller...
...Freeman is a straw-haired, exuberant young Californian who blew his way East ten years ago as trumpeter in a jazz band, trumpeted by night so that he could go to art school by day. Soon he began to freelance, has spent most of his time since prowling round Manhattan with a sketchbook. Says he with a grin: "I've got a front-row seat to this life...
...fire destroyed the old building, which they would have had to tear down, left them richer by $277,671 in insurance. To lay out the new buildings Architects Gordon Kaufman and Paul Williams were hired, turned out an imposing, 69-room hunk of hotel (late Californian with a Southern Georgian trace), plunked on a handsome mountainside. To dress it up inside, Decorator Dorothy Draper was brought from Manhattan. She did it complete with drapes of chintz and tweed, turned out uniforms for the help, wound up with small items, toothpicks and swizzlesticks in black...