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...Boston Unitarian toastmaster once declared: "the Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." Mrs. Reinhardt this year celebrated Mills's goth anniversary and her 26th as its president by announcing her retirement. Mills's alarmed trustees prevailed on her to stay at least until 1943-A native San Franciscan (her father sailed around the Horn and her mother arrived from Ohio on horseback), Mrs. Reinhardt took over Mills as a young widow with two small boys, raised it from a dowdy finishing school to a western Vassar. Its students run their own affairs, are allowed to stay out until...
...Japanese architecture and the work of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. William Wilson Wurster, who gets much of his inspiration from rambling, old-style California ranch-house architecture, has been building houses in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 16 years. Hervey Parke Clark is a San Franciscan who took up architecture after a spell at Yale and with Manhattan's Hood & Fouilhoux. John Ekin Dinwiddie, a pupil of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, has very unconventional ideas. He sometimes builds houses that are not units at all, but chains of completely separated rooms, strung on intervening porticos...
...This country was evangelized in 1500 by the Franciscan Fathers. It has been allowed to drift for nearly 300 years and is not yet dead. The few priests are lax in religious observance, and some of them live in open concubinage...
Second-generation Italians made a clean sweep of U.S. baseball honors in the season just past. Joe DiMaggio, native of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. Dolph Camilli, another San Franciscan, was voted Most Valuable in the National League. Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee shortstop, was the outstanding rookie of the year...
...carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over by the Crump cops. Frisked in front of Atkinson's was Father Bertrand Kock, white pastor of Mrs. Atkinson's church. Police patted his Franciscan robe, made him take off his shoes...