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Editors of the Pioneer, the Golden Era, the Overland Monthly, the Californian were such resourceful amateurs as Sam Brannon, wildcat Mormon leader who got rich collecting tithes from gold prospectors; Ferdinand C. Ewer, tall, goateed, atheist Harvardman who later became an Episcopal rector; Charles Henry Webb, lisping, redheaded ex-sailor and miner, wit and lady-killer, who fled to California to escape the Civil War. (In the second year of the war, 100,000 army deserters and pacifists rolled into California. Among them was a slouchy ex-river pilot named Samuel Clemens...
...long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold him. He was offered $5,000 a year, plus $100 for each poem and story, a quarter interest in the Overland Monthly. The University of California offered him an additional sinecure of $300 a month. But he turned it all down, preferred his congenial brief fame in the East, and after that an Anglophile old age among the British aristocrats...
...waterworks were out of order, the municipal buildings were all destroyed. By day Swatow was a deserted city, but at night, when no bombers came, it hummed with shipping activity. To the port came British, French, U. S., Scandinavian ships bringing war materials. From Swatow they were taken overland in trucks to Shiuchow, 240 miles away, headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Southeastern Chinese Army...
Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper...
Dartmouth's sophomore jumping-jack, Don Blount, who has cleared 6 feet 4 and one-half inches, and covered 24 feet in the overland hop is odds-on favorite in the jumps, but Harvard is not out of the running if Bob Partlow and Captain Bob Haydock find themselves after a rather disappointing winter season...