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Steinbeck's paisanos, remains of the original Spanish settlers above Monterey, are a simple, indolent, pleasure-loving lot who live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...
...named Bernard Ralph Maybeck, Brooklyn-born son of a German woodcarver. who went to California in 1894 and later became the founder and director of the University of California's School of Architecture. A romanticist like Frank Lloyd Wright, he was the first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike Palace of Fine Arts at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition...
Most important of all influences on the new California style, however, is probably that of California itself. Use of native materials like redwood, dictated by economy, has become a distinguishing feature. A climate whose temperature seldom falls below freezing simplifies heating problems, allows greater freedom in window and wall structure, permits shallow foundations which need penetrate the ground only a foot or so to get below the frost line...
Edgewood's station (a twin of Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...
With blood streaming down his cheek for the first time in his career, the champion went after Baer with the savageness for which he is famed. In the sixth round he weakened the giant with chopping rights & lefts, then felled him as though he were a redwood tree. At the count of seven, Baer staggered to his feet, only to be toppled again with another right to the jaw. Just as the timekeeper counted ten, Baer's gloves slowly left the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan motioned the fighters to continue. Once more, Baer toppled to the floor...