Word: hillsborough
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Died. William Henry Crocker, 76, San Francisco banker, onetime president of the Crocker First National Bank; in Hillsborough, Calif. Banker Crocker, a conservative Republican, was once a political arch-enemy of Hiram Johnson. When Charles Evans Hughes made his ill-fated 1916 Presidential campaign visit to California, Banker Crocker was credited with being largely responsible for his failure to meet Hiram Johnson, an omission which according to political legend kept Candidate Hughes from being elected President...
Behind scenes congratulations went to genial one-armed Joseph S. Thompson, new president of the San Francisco Musical Association, and to plump go-getting Leonora Wood Armsby, founder of the Hillsborough summer concerts, who this winter has been the San Francisco orchestra's managing director. Last year when there was no regular season because of the lack of public support, the city voted $30,000 to give ten popular-priced concerts (TIME, May 13). But Mrs. Armsby and President Thompson (brother of Author Kathleen Morris), were determined to have an oldtime formal season besides, engaged Monteux and launched...
...starting him as a clearing clerk in 1918, marching him from department to department. With no formal college education, Son Mario studied law on the side, earned a degree from Hastings College in 1920. Lame, often ill, he works into the early morning hours at his modest home in Hillsborough about 20 miles from his office. Sometimes he asks businessmen to come out in the morning so that he can talk to them on the way into town. His chauffeur drives his Cadillac at a terrific clip, which is his master's wish...
...bald, tangle-bearded Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony opened the tenth annual summer concerts in the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough, Calif. These concerts are the intense concern of rich Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, friend of many a famed musician. From her experience as patron-director of the concerts, Mrs. Armsby has written a book. Musicians Talk in which she frequently refers to visitors at her home-Gabrilowitsch, Hertz, Tibbett, Molinari, Walter, Coates- as "the celebrities." This summer's Hillsborough celebrities: Richard Lert, Basil Cameron, Jose Iturbi...
Died. Elijah K. West, 63, one of the crew of eight who maneuvered the collier Merrimac to Santiago's Harbor during the Spanish-American War, blew her up in an unsuccessful attempt at blockade;* after a brief illness; in Hillsborough, N. H. Rejected as a volunteer to man the Merrimac, West swam out to her as she was leaving the fleet, was dragged aboard...