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...boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...acted for a while in San Francisco, wound up in Hollywood. There, in the early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway. After her great cinema success, Dodsworth, she deserted Hollywood for foreign studios, early last year returned...
...night 10 years ago a stranger ambled into the Chelsea, Okla. station of the Frisco Line to file a telegram. He noticed a guitar resting beside the telegraph operator, a fellow named Autry, and requested They Plowed the Old Trail Under. Autry sang it, whereupon the stranger took the guitar and sang Casey Jones. The stranger chatted a while, told Autry his voice might get him somewhere some day, handed him a stick of chewing gum, and left his telegram. It was signed "Will Rogers...
...other States if "ham-&-eggs" brought the threat of an annual tax of $3,000,000-a tax greater than the total of brokers' commissions. If "ham-&-eggs" passed, announced President William R. Bacon, the Exchange would move to taxfree, divorce-famed Reno, Nev. No idle bluff was Frisco's Stock Exchange making. For last week papers for the incorporation of The San Francisco Stock Exchange Inc. were filed in Reno, and a Reno realtor was readying specifications for a handsome stock exchange building, safely across the line from California...
Being the grandson of a '49er, and a Native Son I feel impelled to go to the aid of that local lady who fears her Eastern kin may fear to visit Frisco because she is living in the "toughest part of town" (TIME, March 13). I'll calm her fears right off the reel. Neither she nor her relatives need fear any toughness in this city. There ain't no such thing any more. This town is as tame now as a long tailed lamb. All its toughness was rubbed out long ago along with...