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...ways. After a sensational hearing in which his thirstiest patron blows the bluenosiest citizen right out of the water, Dan is stripped of his liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds up in a saloonkeeper's heaven on Nob Hill. Like Dan's old tavern, the book is cluttered with all sorts of people-righteous madams, pining widows, pinko artists, lovelorn profs. It plays fast and loose with San Francisco's dignity-not to mention the Dutch master's. But it is big, breezy, and stacked...
...sweaters, socks, gloves and other woolens, concentrated on bathing suits. It got its biggest boost from its trademark, a diving girl clad in what was quite a daring outfit for those days: red bathing suit, red stockings, and a sort of tam-o'-shanter with a white nob on top. In three years, Jantzen distributed 10 million diving-girl stickers for windows and windshields, and its name became known all over the world...
Died. Gaetano Merola, 72, Neapolitan-born founder-director of the San Francisco Opera Company; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Conductor Merola went to San Francisco in 1921, survived two years in money-losing concert ventures to cajole Nob Hill society and ordinary citizens into backing their own city opera company. He launched his first season in 1923, prospered thereafter...
...architect grandfather, the first Christian Herter, came to the U.S. from Stuttgart at a time when the country was accumulating culture as rapidly and indiscriminately as it was founding fortunes. He found an eager clientele, built great mansions from Fifth Avenue (for J. P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt) to Nob Hill (for Mark Hopkins), and gilded them with the treasures of Europe. But grandfather had no taste for business, and vowed that when he made a million dollars he would retire and paint. By 1885 he had the million, which he entrusted to his best friend. Then he casually bade...
Brando himself is the reaching kind. Having recently finished a Stanley Kramer picture called The Wild One, he plans to "nob around" Manhattan for a few weeks digging the art galleries. Then he sails for a three-month tour of Europe. When he gets back, he hopes to direct an off-Broadway play or two, and study voice and diction on the side. That, he thinks, will be the most...