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...Airborne Academic. Litchfield has now spent or earmarked some $126 million for ambitious expansion-and rubbed raw nerves all over town and gown. Spending freely, he has literally taken over the city's Oakland area, buying up the Pittsburgh Pirates' Forbes Field and the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married. He now aims to super develop Oakland into a vast cultural center costing $250 million...
...journeyman carpenter on construction jobs; weekends he played semiprofessional ball. Webb hit nails and nailed hitters all over the West, from Calgary down to the Mexican border, developing at the same time a taste for old bourbon and young ladies. During World War I, he worked in the Oakland shipyards; when it was over, he married his childhood sweetheart, Hazel Church. The marriage broke up in 1952, and last year Webb married pretty, brunette Toni Ince, 41, buyer for the Bullock's-Wilshire department store in Los Angeles...
...doubt your California correspondent's basic account of Oakland's Golden State Square Dance Roundup [June 8] was reasonably accurate. But the added material sounded as if it came out of a book about Early American square dancing...
...undercut the Chronicle rates. Furthermore, Bill Hearst is well aware that should he ever abandon San Francisco's evening field, he would leave it wide open for the Chronicle-which could then move in and publish round the clock-or to an outsider like Bill Knowland's Oakland Tribune across...
...ninth annual Golden State Roundup last week, more than 8,000 square dancers trekked to Oakland's Municipal Auditorium from as far away as Canada and the East Coast. "EIGHT SPIN-AWAY WITH A HALF SASHAY! " honked the caller, and off they went-careening and reeling, wheeling and jumping, into each other's arms and out again while the music sawed and pounded out She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain...