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...Fresno. Calif., Olympic Shotputter Parry O'Brien of the University of Southern California heaved the 16-lb. shot to a new unofficial world record in the West Coast relays. O'Brien's prodigious heave: 59 ft. ¾ in., bettering the 1950 record of Yale's Jim Fuchs by 2% in. ¶ In Rome, Doris Hart, the U.S.'s No. 2 women's tennis player, upset Maureen Connolly...
Back in the U.S., he took his wife on the road with him, through long preaching campaigns, mostly in California. In 1928, at Fresno, he campaigned for nine months straight. He preached for 45 minutes seven nights a week, for the whole time. ("Man alive, we had a number of big baptisms out of that...
...immigrant farmer. He grew up in California's Livermore Valley, left high school after two years to become a messenger in Oakland's Central Bank.*Just 30 years later, he was named Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language, Wente's most frequent injunction to underlings...
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...
Political Punch. As the Sacramento paper grew, McClatchy bought a paper in Modesto and named it the Bee and founded a Bee in Fresno (both now monopoly towns). His son became general manager in 1923, but he died ten years later. When old C.K. died shortly after, his daughter Eleanor, 32, was left to carry on. She had no journalistic training, but she grimly set to work to get it. Now she spends most of her time on the business side, lets able Editor Walter Jones, a 33-year Beeliner, make most top editorial decisions for all three papers...