Word: californians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still unsolved.) Young Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking up railroadmen on time. Then he was a newsboy and cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. He played the clarinet in the Kern County High School band, later joining the Musicians' Union. At the University of Cali fornia, Warren was a steady but not bril liant student. He flunked second-year Greek; he failed to make the baseball team as a pitcher because he was too wild...
Died. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 91, famed Californian; in Los Gatos, Calif. The eccentric corporation lawyer was a fighting liberal, poet, satirist (Heavenly Discourse), had been a West Pointer ('74), Indian fighter, longtime friend of Jack London and Mark Twain...
Left in mid-brushstroke as of Aug. 31, unless private funds come to their rescue, will be 42 uniformed artists (19 civilian employes, 23 from the Army). Among the painters involved are: George Biddle himself (now in Algeria), Californian Millard Sheets, Texan Howard Cook, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, New Yorkers Henry Varnum Poor, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook...
...friend, Director Howard Hawks, who had helped him make Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...
...frenzied enthusiasm are born, not made. Few seem to be born in the U.S.* But last week in Manhattan's Town Hall one budding U.S.-born conductor had Manhattan's surliest critics holding their breaths with excitement. He was an earnest-looking, square-faced, 26-year-old Californian, Robert Shaw, and he was conducting a hastily trained chorus of 170-odd singers in a program of modern music by Manhattan's William Schuman...