Word: vallejo
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...name of Corbus already was great at Stanford and at Vallejo (Calif.) High School which last year re-christened its gridiron Corbus Field for the alumnus whose cleated shoes had honored it. When he entered Stanford in 1930 Bill Corbus, big, blond and handsome, had to submit to the nickname "Baby Face." With even less relish he heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero...
...director of Soviet theatres announced that Zany Arthur (Harpo) Marx, maddest of the four brother zanies, would be invited to panto mime in Russia next spring. Star passenger of the Grace Line's new Santa Rosa, maiden-cruising this week from New York to Seattle, is Mrs. Louise Vallejo D'Emparan, 91, only living daughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, prominent in California's Mexi can regime (ended 1846) and founder of Santa Rosa, Calif., whence the ship's name. Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court for an injunction...
Divorced. Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton, 35, film actor; and Natalie Talmadge Keaton. 29; in Los Angeles. Grounds: neglect. Died. Lieut.-Commander Vincent Arthur Clarke Jr., 41, onetime commander of U. S. S. Los Angeles; of blood poisoning; in Vallejo, Calif. Died. Vere Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, 41, novelist (Great Waters, Thy Dark Freight), sister of Novelist Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes); in London. Died. James C. Lawrence, 42, dean of administration at University of Minnesota, member of President Hoover's first Unemployment Relief Committee; by inhaling carbon monoxide; in Minneapolis. Died. Ray Austin Graham, 45, treasurer of Graham...
Soprano Rosa Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...
...dickens," panted the stroker; "why-er-what the -er-I say, young feller, where did you come from?" "From New York, gentlemen," replied the stranger, modestly, as he slipped on his coat and started up the wharf. "My name is Hanlan-and I hope to see you all at Vallejo on Thursday. Good morning." And since then all you have to do to get fourteen stretchers fired at you, is to stick your head into the Pioneer club-house and yell, "Hard all!" [Aquatic...