Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, TIME correspondents in Chicago, Los Angeles, Hot Springs, Ark., San Francisco, New Orleans and Naples (Gangster Lucky Luciano's current retreat), and Researcher Anne Lopatin were doing their own digging into the Costello past and present. Much of it was the business of tracking down rumors which often proved to be untrue, and triple-checking the facts. In the midst of his New Orleans investigation Correspondent Ed Ogle answered his telephone and the following conversation took place...
...another federal courtroom, in San Francisco, the U.S. began last week the job of trying to prove that Harry Bridges is a Communist and that he had perjured himself when he denied it. The Government had tried unsuccessfully twice before; this time the Government promised a new witness whose words would "carry a real Sunday punch." If the charge can be proved, the vociferous, needle-nosed boss of the C.I.O. Longshoremen can be sent back to his native Australia. As in the Hiss trial, the jury is eight women and four...
...newsman--William German, head of the San Francisco Chronicle's copy desk--put it this way: "We're tremendously impressed with Harvard's vitality and stimulation. There's so much worth doing here that I wish I could spend a full four years...
...Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career...
Paul C. Smith, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, has been named as chairman of a committee of newspapermen to raise funds for a Nieman Follows Room in the new Graduate Center, Donald H. McLoughlin, chairman of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, announced last Friday...