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Campus Cub. Daughter of a globetrotting businessman and a French mother, Marguerite Higgins was born in Hong Kong in 1920, got her schooling in France and the University of California ('41). During the summer after graduation, she cubbed for the Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald. While she worked for her master's degree at Columbia's School of Journalism, she landed her first Trib job as a campus correspondent, was taken on full time when she finished Columbia in 1942. She was sent to the London bureau in 1944, got to Germany in time to cover the closing...
...neighboring towns of Vacaville and Vallejo heard the explosions, dispatched hearses, doctors, ambulances and more fire trucks to the base. These threaded their way through the refugees who swarmed dazedly out of the post gates and clogged the highways...
...Vallejo, Calif...
...pupils, mostly day laborers and farmers, study a written syllable and the picture of a familiar object whose name begins with the same syllable (example: "new" and a newspaper). Eventually they get to know the syllable by itself. Says Director Gustavo Vallejo Larrea: "The most thrilling moment is when they read their first word without a picture. They consider it just short of a miracle-sweat, cry and try to kiss the teacher's hand...
Double Trouble. In Vallejo, Calif., Shopkeeper Jack Hocker offered to ex change a right-hand glove for one of the two left-handers somebody stole from his shop...