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Many U.S. war plants have set up recreation centers for their employes. But the real California touch was applied last week by Rohr Aircraft Corp. (plane parts) at Chula Vista. For its 8,000-odd employes, Rohr took a five-year lease on the swank $250,000 San Diego Country Club, with 158 acres of golf, tennis, Softball, croquet, badminton, horseback-riding, picnicking and bar-rooming. To accommodate all three Rohr shifts, the club will operate 24 hours...
...Union of South Africa, home of 2.000,000 dominant whites, 7,000,000 blacks and 250,000 Indians, grappled last week with an ugly racial problem. In Durban, chief port and swank resort of Natal Province, prosperous Indian merchants and farmers (mostly descendants of laborers imported in the 19th Century) had bought $3,000,000 worth of property in the past two and a half years, had moved into new homes in the city's toniest suburbs...
Working as a securities salesman from 9 to 5 in a Wall Street brokerage office was 38-year-old Archduke Franz Josef of Austria, who rumbled to work by subway from the swank Savoy-Plaza. He explained he just wanted something...
...Golf Association cut out a war pattern for golf clubs: let them combine golf with victory gardening by replacing part of the rough (not fairways or greens) with vegetable gardens. Westchesters swank Wykagyl Country Club went enthusiastically supererogatory, plowed up its first and second fairways and allotted a patch to each of 55 member families. Members plan to play nine holes each Sunday, spend the rest of the day gardening...
Herman Mankiewicz is a moonfaced, top-flight Hollywood film writer. One night he was driving alone on Benedict Canyon Road in swank Beverly Hills. His car collided head-on with another driven by Leonora Gershwin, wife of Lyricist Ira Gershwin. Mrs. Gershwin and two women with her were hurt slightly. Scenarist Mankiewicz, unhurt, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, was later released on $500 bond pending a hearing. As news the accident was worth brief mention at most...