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...Kappa Berkeley graduate and a former Red Cross worker in Japan and Korea. The newlyweds moved into a ramshackle old Victorian house in Walnut Creek near San Francisco and concentrated on turning it into a warm, imaginatively decorated home for themselves and Mark. Formerly night copy editor of the Oakland Tribune, Painter switched to freelance writing and became a $167-a-week designer of visual aids at the 2,000-boy Job Corps center in nearby Pleasanton. To Center Director Steve Uslan, Painter is "uniquely suited" to his job. "His ability to draw kids out of their shells is quite...
...have finished last in the National Hockey League for five straight years, regularly outdraw the Boston Celtics, who have won seven straight National Basketball Association championships. So the N.H.L. decided last week to expand from six to twelve teams, granting new franchises to Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco-Oakland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
Died. Joseph Knowland, 92, Republican publisher (from 1915 to 1960) of the Oakland Tribune and U.S. Congressman (five terms), who helped boost Earl Warren to the governorship and his own son William to the U.S. Senate; of pneumonia; in Piedmont, Calif...
Stories of the surgical reattachment of an arm, hand or foot after accidental amputation have reached medical journals from places as far apart as Boston and Canton. But rare indeed is the restorative surgery that can claim the success now reported from California. An Oakland motorcyclist whose leg was sliced through three inches above the ankle had his severed foot put back in place, and last week, more than three years after the operation, he was well on the way to walking normally...
...Navy, was trying out his powerful new motorcycle that summer day in 1962 when he lost control and rammed a driveway culvert. His severed right foot hung by a ribbon of skin and other tissues; its two major arteries had been cut. By the time he was carried to Oakland's Highland Hospital, his bloodless leg was a deathly white, mottled with blue. Amputation seemed unavoidable. But Larsen was a young giant (then 22) in top physical condition, and a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Walter L. Byers decided that there was some hope...