Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeated both Cal. and Stanford in dual meets earlier in the season, and then went on to win the Pacific Association title, and closed their home season with a crushing victory in the Fresno Relays. In the latter meet, held under the arc lights at night, the Los Angeles boys piled up 82 points to California's 48, and Stanford's 26. It is in this Fresno meet that the best records of the year are usually made on the Coast. This year the spectators were treated to such routine performancs as a 9.5 100 yard dash, a high hurdle...
...Moines, in addition to hordes of schoolboys, the Drake carnival had a Queen: Nona Kenneaster, brunette senior at Fresno State College, selected from 28 nominees of competing colleges by the editors of the Drake year book, for her "poise, personality, beauty and intelligence." Queen Kenneaster toured the campus, presided over a Queen's Ball, received a crown from Drake President Daniel Webster Morehouse, was guest of honor at a "D" Club dance and accepted an invitation from Huey Long to have breakfast in his hotel suite. That afternoon, when he turned up at the field, Huey Long was roundly...
Adapted from Author Vance Hoyt's Malibu, with the title changed lest cinemaddicts mistake it for a story about Hollywood, Sequoia was extraordinarily difficult to film. Gato and Malibu are natives of Sequoia National Park near Fresno. There Director Chester Franklin. Producer John Considine Jr. and a crew of 40 worked almost two years, made 62 miles of film before they had the 7.500 feet they needed. Most outdoor pictures require a dozen or so different types of lenses. Photographer Chester Lyons used 47 in Sequoia. Pack trains carried film from location to a base camp daily whence...
...ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated at public schools and libraries, by odd jobs and semi-starvation, William Saroyan began to write in his teens. But, says he, "I am not a writer at all. ... I write because there is nothing...
University of Southern California, with 63 points: the West Coast Relays at Fresno, Calif., run at night. In an exhibition 100-yd. dash, George Anderson, 18, University of California freshman, equaled the world's record...