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...going to be a long earthquake. At 6:06 p. m. (Pacific Time) a second shudder ran under California's coastal apron, from the winter & summer colony at Santa Barbara to the port of San Diego, 200 mi. south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
...close observer of the vibration experiments has been Bailey Willis, Leland Stanford's professor emeritus of geology. Southern Californians consider fluffy-bearded Professor Willis a mischievous hoot owl because, after the devastating 1925 earthquake at Santa Barbara and during the Los Angeles boom, he indiscreetly predicted that the next violent upheaval of the Pacific Coast would occur, as it did. in Southern California. At that time he commented: "Men's memories are sadly short, when they can find cheaper ways of doing things. Yet we can be, and some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American...
Beneath the shirt & vest of Dr. Chung there beats no manly heart. Dr. Margaret Jessie Chung ("Margie" to hundreds of cinemactors and aviators) was born in Santa Barbara and obtained her M. D. from the University of Southern California in 1916. Practicing first in Los Angeles, later in San Francisco, she acquired great skill in treating the plaints current in the cinema and the U. S. Navy. She still has a practice in Hollywood, makes frequent trips by plane from San Francisco where she keeps an elaborate office in the middle of Chinatown. Greta Garbo and Anna May Wong...
...Santa Barbara, Calif...
...That night 72 Roosevelts & kin dined at the White House. Republican Alice Roosevelt Longworth broke bread with her Democratic fifth cousin. Afterwards the First Lady took five carloads of relatives to the Inaugural Ball. John, her youngest son, escorted Barbara Gushing, sister of his brother James's wife. Around the floor of the Washington Auditorium they shuffled with 6,000 other dancers while 2.000 oldsters watched from boxes. The proceeds went to charity...