Word: francisco
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...pianist ; his father was a journalist on the New York World and the Seattle Times. Thomas played trumpet in dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally...
...charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
...Wisconsin 7 7 14 7--35 Iowa 0 0 6 7--13 T.C.U. 0 0 7 7--14 Texas 0 0 7 6--13 Northwestern 20 6 7 6--39 Colgate 0 7 7 6--20 Michigan 0 7 13 0--20 Indiana 0 7 0 0--7 San Francisco 0 0 0 0--0 Tulsa 0 0 3 7--10 Georgetown 7 14 7 0--28 Denver 0 0 6 7--13 SOUTH Georgia Tech 7 0 0 0--7 Alabama 0 0 14 6--20 North Carolina State 20 0 0 7--27 Wake Forest...
Thus spoke Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, the first woman Treasurer of the U.S. to an audience of 105 women in San Francisco's ornate Fairmont Hotel last week...
Though women have added a few feminine frills to the countinghouse, complete acceptance of women in the fusty man-world of banking is a long way off. (Even the San Francisco newspapers could not quite accept them; they covered A.B.W.'s doings on the society pages.) Sighed one A.B.W.-delegate last week: "They're learning to respect us-but they still snicker behind our backs...