Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert B. Broadwater '42, Oakland...
...Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...
...Items for Miscellany are gathered and checked with care. As for Teddy, he got home to Boston last month, having hitchhiked from Oakland, Calif, (where his trusting owner, retired Chiropodist Fred Sidney of Harvard, Mass., turned him loose). Thanks to fellow travelers' assistance, smart Teddy had made the 3,272-mile trip in only 26 days...
...playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard (where...
...mother's garden, domesticated it, named it Teddy. To find out whether toads had a homing instinct, the chiropodist took Teddy on longer & longer trips, turned him loose. Teddy always came home-though from Dallas, Texas it took him a year. Last week Teddy was set down at Oakland, Calif., began hopping patiently along the railroad tracks toward Boston. The chiropodist expects Teddy home again by April...