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With an oratorical toss of the head, the tall, ministerial figure stepped back from the lectern like one whose duty is, for the moment, done. That was John L. McNab's idea of how to introduce his Palo Alto, Calif., neighbor to the country...
...Secretary's secretary said that the Secretary would continue being the Secretary of Commerce probably until a few days after he had received the notification committee headed by Senator Moses in Palo Alto, Calif., early next month...
...installed to be sure of getting Kansas City clearly. At his home was another receiving set. He had worked all over the world at a man's work; given orders, reasoned objectively, sought no praise. Yet there he sat, listening for his friend, John McNab of Palo Alto, to make a speech about him; then for thunderous cheers, roll-calls of delegates, a flattering result...
...Minthorn heard about a university that Senator Leland Stanford was founding in memory of his son and namesake, down in a meadowy place called Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Nephew Herbert went there, immature, shy, curly-headed, precocious at 17 except in English. Professor John Branner helped him become a prodigious geologist. Also, in that first class at Stanford University, Herbert Hoover had his first taste of politics...
Southern California took a live pig to Palo Alto. The pig has been blessed by Cinemactress Marion Davies, and presented to Captain Drury of Southern California as a mascot. Drury played a small part in Miss Davies' latest cinema The Fair Coed. He played a large part in California's clash with Stanford; plunging 41 times for an average of 4 yards per plunge. California scored 13. Badly outplayed, Stanford gave Fleish-hacker the ball for seven successive hacks; stole a touchdown in the dying seconds of the last period; tied the game. The pig pouted...