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...also add that no San Franciscan ever called the Ferry Building the Ferry "House...
...Santa Fe he breakfasted with 60 eminent Democrats. At Albuquerque, he lunched at the Franciscan Hotel with 525 admirers who had paid $1 apiece to break bread with him. Because his afternoon was given to answering telegrams and political conferences, he did not get around to inspecting the post office, but at 5:45 o'clock he attended a 15-minute reception at the Knights of Columbus, at 6 dined with post office employes, at 7:30 paraded by car to the high-school auditorium to speak, at 9:45 was off for Arizona...
...years ago the Pulitzer Prize Committee gave its $1,800 music award to Ernst Bacon, a young San Franciscan whose First Symphony made him seem most worthy for study and travel in Europe. Columbia's Daniel Gregory Mason, Professor Seth Bingham and Dr. Frank Damrosch, Conductor Walter's brother, made the decision by reading the score. But until last week it seemed as though the $1,800 would be Composer Bacon's only return. His Symphony was never played until Conductor Issai Dobrowen forgot Tchaikovsky long enough to give it place of honor on the week...
...managing editor of the old San Francisco Morning Call. Later he turned religious, stopped drinking, became a faith healer (his phrase: "metaphysical student"). His "treatments" consisted of instruction in "right thinking." His patients paid him as they chose. No fool, "Sam" Leake knew many an important San Franciscan, including Senator Shortridge whose son & wife he "treated." Through the Shortridges he met Harold Louderback. They became intimate friends. As a State judge, Louderback appointed Leake to at least two court positions. As a Federal Judge, Louderback used Leake's Fairmont Hotel room (No. 26) for years as a hideaway while...
...circles, 4,000 ft. around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul the airship along the tracks. A null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco and neighboring towns raised $470,000 to buy the 1,000-acre Sunnyvale tract, gave the land to the Government. Total Government investment in the station will be about...