Word: pages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then he has been given almost a free hand with the paper and has instituted what he calls a "streamlined Chronicle." Most of its news is departmentalized, lumped under general headings. Onetime Editor Chester Harvey Rowell writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only...
Meantime all plane makers heard heartening news. In 1922, when British Aeronautic Engineer Frederick Handley Page took out U. S. patents on his wing slot, a safety device to control spinning and stalling,* he demanded a fancy price for installation: about 5% of the plane's cost (as much as $25,000 for a DC-4). Too costly for most plane makers who hesitated to devise variants lest they infringe on British patents, wing slots were rarely used. Many a flier crashed who might otherwise have been saved...
Last week Engineer Page's patents expired, wing slots became available to everybody...
...translated, and practically rewritten, by Hecht and MacArthur (The Front Page, 20th Century), Ladies and Gentlemen gives Helen Hayes (Mrs. MacArthur) her first new play after three years and 969 performances of Victoria Regina. She was glad to escape from that "rarefied atmosphere," says she, "because I am fearful of becoming the centre of a cult." Ladies and Gentlemen, after opening in Santa Barbara, last week started a month's tryout on the West Coast-two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Hayes said her husband felt that, if she must play in his piece...
This week that teeming literature is celebrated in a 425-page volume called San Francisco's Literary Frontier. An absorbing book, it contains a big cast, centring on Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller. But at least a dozen of its 45 secondary and minor characters are as interesting if not as important as these. They shuttle in & out of a narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco...