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Seismologists at Pasadena's California Institute of Technology rated the Bakersfield quake at Intensity 6 (on the Richter scale of 10) as compared with 7.5 for the shake last month. They figured that both quakes originated along the Garlock fault, a major fracture in the earth's structure paralleling the Tehachapi range. The flat motion in both quakes indicated that both resulted from a slight horizontal slipping of the fault, instead of a vertical slippage...
William Ellery Hale, of Pasadena, the son of famed Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who built Mount Wilson Observatory, has worked in an architect's firm, a brokerage house, a bank, is now assistant treasurer of the Thermador Electrical Manufacturing Co. Married, three sons (the oldest, Princeton '50). He recalls: "I was always messy and late sending my laundry . . . so I consistently borrowed underpants and starched shirts from Steve. He kept me well laundered for four years." Says Hale: "For the first time, I'm faced with the rather frightening possibility of voting for a Democratic
Louis Winchester Jones, also of Pasadena, worked briefly in a brokerage firm and a bank, then started teaching English at CalTech, where he is now an associate professor, dean of admissions and registrar. Married, two sons. Jones recalls: "The Rabbit rushed thither and yon like a lost child, but dammit, he got things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan...
...Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough's most famed work, is the favorite at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery near Pasadena. It is a standout in the splendid $50 million collection put together between 1908 and 1927 by Railroad Heir Henry E. Huntington...
...50th straight victory last Dec. 30 in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl meet, vaulting Bob has practically nailed down a spot on the U.S. Olympic team for this summer's games in Helsinki-and not on his aerial prowess alone. Last May he gave a talk at Pasadena's John Muir College (subject: Christianity and athletics), dropped in two days later to enter a decathlon on the invitation of Muir's track coach. In the field events Richards turned out to be a natural, despite his lack of brawn (5 ft. 10 in., 163 Ibs.). Two months...