Word: california
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd on Hollywood's Vine Street shouted, cheered and clapped at the sight of Jimmy Roosevelt emerging from Tom Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs...
...curbstone coming-out party attracted a lot of people, though F.D.R.'s eldest (41) son might well have preferred a fine public dinner, full of resounding endorsements from Democratic bigwigs. Unfortunately, most old-line California Democrats regard Jimmy as something of a Typhoid Mary. Among their kindlier criticisms they accused him of being a carpetbagger-a point which he met in his broadcast with a time-honored political cliche: "I congratulate those of you who, like my sons and daughter, had the foresight to be born here. The rest of us, three out of every five Californians, have...
...that so many ball players had to be included when men like Bob Mathias, Charley Justice, and the members of the California crew are conspicuously absent...
...thing the big four have in common, beyond their perfect records and the prospect of one or more men each on 1949's All-America, is coaching power. At Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces...
Married. Darrylin Zanuck, 18, daughter of 20th Century-Fox's Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Gentleman's Agreement, Pinky); and Robert L. Jacks, 22, University of Southern California graduate ('49); in Covington...