Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Devil's Disciple. In Fresno, Calif., the Fresno Bee, intending to tell of "correction," reported that Fred Engle had been named the state's "deputy staff director of corruption," finished off with: "Like his brother, he is a Democrat...
Blanket Charge. In Fresno, Calif., when police picked him up in an orange grove and booked him for drunkenness, Roy Hutchinson righteously protested: "I am an unemployed smoke signal sender...
Broad-shouldered, bird-legged Ray Norton, 21, of California's San Jose State, might have had a world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what had happened to his competitors. Nevertheless, Norton ran the heat in 9.3. Said Head Timekeeper Snort Winstead: "I think he would have run 9.1 if he hadn't turned his head." Last month at Fresno the lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.) Norton caught the fast-finishing Morrow...
Moment of Faith. Brother Antoninus, 46, came to his vocation through labyrinthine ways. Born William Everson in Sacramento, Calif., to a Norwegian-born bandmaster turned printer, he put in some time at Fresno State College, married his 1 high school sweetheart ("A square thing, but it happens to be the truth"), and was overwhelmed by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. His other literary landmarks: D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. "They were the crystallizing books of my pre-Catholic formation," says Brother Antoninus. "They have a kind...
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