Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher started A. Mutt in the San Francisco Chronicle as a race track tipster, in 1907. Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...
From Tokyo there landed at San Francisco last week the great, the inexplicable Paul Claudel, who hurried at once to Washington accompanied by his daughter Reine. For six years he has been French Ambassador to Japan, always manifesting himself in strange ways and at strange moments. Now he comes as Ambassador to Washington. Eventually, some will discuss with him War debts, some will look up his odes, many will feel his charm, his strength; but few will understand his genius...
Married. George Campbell Carson, 55, "Desert Rat," who successfully fought for $20,000,000 in royalties on a smelting machine patent; to four-times-married Mrs. Hersee M. Gross, who said she had now found her "dream man"; in San Francisco...
...Twelve. (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco...
Uruguay also played flyers' host last week. The three surviving U. S. Army "Good Will" planes (TIME, March 7), flew in to Montevideo from Buenos Aires. Leaving the harbor soon after, the San Francisco failed to rise from the water, hit a rock. Damage was (slight and soon mended, though ; Lieut. Muir S. Fairchild broke a irib. Soon Rio de Janeiro turned out to welcome* the pilgrims to Brazil...