Word: visalia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Susan Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...
...Giannini, is the son of an immigrant farmer. He grew up in California's Livermore Valley, left high school after two years to become a messenger in Oakland's Central Bank.*Just 30 years later, he was named Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language, Wente...
...S.P.C.A. officials estimate that a secret syndicate of 18 to 20 "big-wheel" promoters in California operate a cockfight business running to more than a million dollars annually. With the efficiency of an underground boxing commission, "the syndicate" coordinates matches in "mains" (bigtime cockpits) at Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Monterey, Visalia and El Centro, issues guides to lesser known pits in vineyards nearby. It also keeps tabs on championships, betting odds and bird prices, buys off the law when...