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Last week many a Californian journeyed to the Theosophical Society's estate near Ojai where Krishnamurti lives in a hut. Lately returned from a lecture tour of Mexico and South America, the abdicated Messiah delivered the Society's triennial series of talks, will soon depart for more talks in Holland where the Society owns an estate at Ommen...
...were frank to admit that what they like most about the office of Junior Men's Representative is the "prestige". That is why at least three of the four candidates are running for election. Being elected will make somebody another of the many "big men on the campus." --Daily Californian...
...Emily Post of Business" is Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon, a tall, handsome, energetic Californian in her 50's. She has been a confidential secretary, an automobile editor, an advertising manager, head of her own agency. For five years she was an account executive with the big advertising firm of Erwin, Wasey & Co. Having observed business from both the inner and the outer office, she set out to advise women on how to get on in the business world. She lectures, writes a syndicated column, tours the country presenting edifying playlets in big department stores. The lead is played...
...Letourner's partner, tangled with Bobby Echevaria, jacknifed to the boards amid the wreckage of his bicycle, stumbled off with a broken collarbone. By 9:30 p. m., the spills numbered 28. Next night Norman Hill pedaled into Dave Lands. The latter was only slightly damaged but the Californian dislocated his collarbone. Hour later, Eddie Testa relieved his partner, Echevaria, by bowling into him. So great was the impact that Echevaria's pedal broke through the wooden surface of the track. Echevaria retired with severe bruises, and Testa paired with Peden to leave nine teams in the race...
Food Machinery started humbly in 1884 when Maine-born Californian John Bean invented the first hand spray pump, designed to battle the San Jose scale.* Spray pumps grew bigger, with higher pressures, became power driven, resulted in the manufacture of turbine pumps used in irrigating farms. Now turbine pumps are used in mines and tunnels...