Word: californians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finals, Pauline sailed into fellow-Californian Brough, with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Clement Attlee looking on. She won, 6-2, 6-4. The doubles were a triple triumph for California...
America's best hope at Wimbledon had failed, but a little-known fellow Californian-23-year-old Tom Brown of San Francisco-still had a chance. He upset Ecuador's flashy Pancho Segura last week, now had to get past (among others) Czechoslovakia's sizzling Jaroslav Drobny and France's veteran, 6 ft. 7 in. Yvon Petra to win. The U.S. women, led by Pauline Betz and Margaret Osborne, were still going strong...
...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
...gabby prose until it is as flabby as Nesselrode custard. His hero, Private Wesley Jackson, is a writer-of the Saroyan persuasion. He even has the Army job Saroyan had: writing scenarios for training and documentary films. And just to moisten the damp resemblance, Saroyan makes him a precocious Californian: Wesley is published in the New Republic when he is only 18-but it never goes to his head. Nothing does...
...Californian oil may be running...