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Locked Stable. In Monterey, Calif., Deley Brown borrowed a car, wrecked it, borrowed a truck to tow the wrecked car away, wrecked the truck, climbed out of the wreckage and tore up his driver's license...
Since John Steinbeck thus described it in Cannery Row two years ago, California's famed fishing town of Monterey (130 miles south of San Francisco) has had a surfeit of quiet and magic. By last week, the fishing fleet in the sardine center of the U.S. had dwindled from 85 to 55 boats. Hardly any whistles blew along Cannery Row. "We just keep open," said the owner of one of its 59 plants, "hoping for a few fish to dirty up our canneries." But fish had mysteriously gone from their haunts off Monterey...
Three years ago, Monterey brought in 234,000 tons and San Francisco 136,000 tons-more than two-thirds of California's total. But the next season's catches fell off sharply-to 142,000 tons for Monterey, 83,000 tons for San Francisco. Despite the adoption of such expensive devices as sonar to locate the schools of fish last year's catches slumped even more. Bitter rivals in normal times, the canners banded together, hired a plane and got the Coast Guard to lend another to scout offshore for sardines. By last week, at what...
...regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point who says he lives in Monterey Park, Calif, but actually lives out of a suitcase on the amateur golf circuit...
...been captain of the Yale '07 football team, he would not have met Templeton Crocker (Yale '08), who introduced him to his grandfather, California Banker William H. Crocker. Young Sam was hired to liquidate Crocker's corporate catchall which owned, among other things, the Monterey Peninsula. While liquidating it, young Morse formed a San Francisco syndicate which bought the peninsula for more than...