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...Francisco in the 1900s, Miss Faye & Co. tour Pacific Street's colorful saloons, stage a novel roller-skating dance, hop to Europe for a magnificent shot of a Dutch tulip field, and by way of plot attempt to prove that never the Barbary Coast (John Payne) and Nob Hill (Lynn Bari) shall meet. Technicolor does justice to Miss Bari's talents...
Operating now on both edges of the continent, blue-eyed, greying Jimmy Wa ters commutes back & forth by airplane two or three times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside, Calif. He eggs his salesmen on with contests in which they win chances on a punchboard (two for selling a De Soto, one for a Plymouth) containing $35,000 in prizes...
...Snob apparently derives from S. Nob. (Sine Nobilitate), which was appended to names of commoners attending English schools and colleges before the 18th Century, when education was commonly regarded as the prerogative of aristocracy...
...sardonically such men as Einstein and his Relativity Theory and Ehrlich and his ''Magic Bullet." For Reader Richert's edification, Einstein and Ehrlich and other great Jews are not considered Germans according to Nazi standards. They are "non-Aryan" and possess inferior blood. Their names should nob be mentioned in Nazi circles except for shame and degradation and their achievements are meaningless because they are ''contaminated" with Jewish brains...
...more a year. Fifteen years ago San Franciscans put their famous reservoir to another use. At Mocassin Creek near the valley floor they built turbines, harnessed nearly 100,000 horsepower of electricity. City-owned transmission lines carry the power to Newark near San Francisco Bay. There, 27 miles from Nob Hill, the power leaves the city's hands, enters those of big Pacific Gas & Electric, which sells San Franciscans all the electricity they...