Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week, as his car reached the end of its run, a San Francisco cable-car conductor heard the muffled howling of dogs. Next he investigated, traced the noise to an abandoned night club. He notified the San Francisco S. P. C. A. When Officer Al Girolo broke in, he found 34 feebly whimpering dogs chained to the silver-&-gold walls inside. Obviously near death from starvation, the dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny spots where their hair had fallen out. Two of the dogs were dead. Seven...
...name of "Everall." Arrested, she and her husband now called themselves "Mr. & Mrs. David Brown." "I did the best I could," wept Mrs. Brown. ". . . We fed them every week or so." Their lawyer said later they were really David and Eleanor Goldshur: he a philosophy instructor at San Francisco Junior College, she a student of psychology. Mr. Goldshur disclaimed any knowledge of the dogs' plight; Mrs. Goldshur explained that she was interested in "animal mass behaviorism.'' Officer Girolo said that dogs have to be "damned hungry" before they resort to cannibalism...
...Francisco's Museum of Art, 15 paintings went on show last week celebrating the eccentric, Slavic, bucolic conceits of Marc Chagall, a 51-year-old Russian with a flair for flowery dreams. Typical: Inspiration, showing a youth playing a fiddle with one hand while kneeling on the back of a deer. This is no mean stunt, and as a reward a Christmasy angel is presenting him with a bouquet. Behind is calm blue water with a calm blue couple in a rowboat...
Though no scientist, Everson recognized genius when he heard his gangling new employe's television theory. He went to see two officers of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank, Jesse B. McCargar and the late James J. Fagan. Crusty Banker Fagan remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea but someone ought to put money into it and someone that can afford to lose it." He and McCargar put up an initial $25,000. The year...
Inventor Farnsworth had still to prove that his ideas worked. For twelve years he labored in San Francisco and Philadelphia laboratories-watched over by his pretty wife, Pern, who saw to it that he did not forget to eat while building his complex equipment. By 1930 the world of science admitted his theories on television were practical...