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Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of California's Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and at the moment none was particularly happy about it. Clyde Stevens, a notorious bandit, had just accomplished his fourth bank robbery since they paroled him last October. The Press was hounding them again for laxity...
...California lunch rooms are built like igloos, puppies, derby hats. At California Institute of Technology work Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California on Nov. 6 is an enormous...
...headline: LAMSON WINS NEW TRIAL. It would be hard to guess who was most astonished: Hearst's San Francisco Examiner which apparently had been badly scooped or Chief Justice William Harrison Waste of the California Supreme Court or David A. Lamson, sitting in his death cell at San Quentin Prison. Last year a San Jose jury had found the young Stanford University Press salesmanager guilty of murder after it refused to believe his story that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured her skull (TIME, Sept. 11, 1933). Judge Waste and his associates...
...long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself among the catalog of heroes is modest...
...gates of San Quentin prison appeared plump, watery-eyed Mrs. Tom Mooney, to visit her convict-husband. Occasion: their 23rd wedding anniversary, the 16th they have passed together within San Quentin's walls...