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...unknown bandit, seen only by a newsboy who could not identify him, made the rounds of the open rooms of G entry, taking a watch costing $100 from William M. Gurton '56 and then $30 in cash from Roger Raquart '54 in F entry...
Early Years: Earl Warren was born March 19, 1891, in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street, grew up in the "railroad section" of Bakersfield. He earned his spending money as a newsboy, a railroad callboy, a freight hustler, a farm hand and a cub reporter on the Bakersfield Californian. At Bakersfield's Kern County High School, he played clarinet in the school band and outfield on the baseball team. At the University of California, he was full of fun but not of diligence. He was a popular member of the Gun Club, which...
...three-year prison term for evading $1,217,296 in income taxes. That part of the memory, says son Walter, "has been like a whip on my back." The Moe Annenberg that Walter remembers and reveres was a self-made immigrant from East Prussia who started out as a newsboy, became the Hearst chain's circulation director, and left to build a publishing empire on the cornerstone of a racing-wire service he fondly called the "A.P. of racing news...
...Titus Haffa, was an investigation by a coroner's jury. One key finding yet to be explained: during alterations the interior stairway and the front fire escape of the Haber building were removed, and no provision made for substitute exits. Haffa, who had begun his career as a newsboy a block from the building, was shocked and contrite. He promised to turn the site into a playground as a memorial to the dead...
Died. William Fox, 73, onetime grand panjandrum of Hollywood, producer of such hits as Cleopatra (with Theda Bara), Seventh Heaven and What Price Glory; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, ex-Newsboy and ex-Garment Worker Fox launched himself in the entertainment world when he used his $1,666.66 savings to buy a rundown Brooklyn nickelodeon. In 1915 he formed the Fox Film Corp., pyramided it (on paper) by 1929 into a $300 million empire, amassed a personal fortune of $35 million. But the cost of equipping 1,100 Fox theaters for talking pictures proved...