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...himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook nudged its way. Obedient to the master, the pins vanished into the pit, every last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Considering Harrison Gulch to be a typical "Poor Young Men's" camp, permit me to point out that out of 165 enrollees two-thirds of them are taking correspondence courses which are offered by the California State Department of Education. One-half of the enrolled body are interested in completing their high-school work. They will receive credit for work done in camp through the local high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Camp Harrison Gulch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Franciscans went indigenous and played Old West in the streets for days before their fair's official opening. They renamed Polk Street "Polk Gulch" and hung out signs like "Red eye, 15?. Black eye, free." In San Francisco they know how to give parties and this was one given by the whole city to the vanguard of 4,000,000 visitors from other States who they estimate will spend $400,000,000 in California this year, $240,000,000 of it right in San Francisco. For a tourist's map of that city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City in a light rain, westbound for Billings, both engines of their Lockheed Zephyr had, for some reason still unexplained, quit. Husky square-jawed Pilot Chamberlain, gallantly trying to get back to the field, went down in a gulch, 1,200 feet short. The ship, striking at fearful speed with a 25-mile wind on its tail, crashed into jagged pieces, burned to ghastly junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilot's Voice | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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