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...further result of the Pusan story, the citizens of at least one city are embarked on a group effort. At the home of TIME-reader Louisa Boyd Gile, poetess and wife of a retired Army major, some 30 key citizens of La Jolla, Calif, met to set up relief plans for the world's needy and neglected children. The group will center its initial efforts on arousing the interest of local civic groups, plans to spend the first money it raises on school rehabilitation kits and tents to substitute for bombed-out school buildings...
...Jolla, Calif...
...finds from the depths were dead when they reached the Galathea. In charge of Dr. Claude E. ZoBell of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif. were strong steel cylinders specially designed to take samples of bottom ooze and bring them to the surface without change of pressure. Up to the Galathea in these pressurized elevators came bottom-living bacteria, which Dr. ZoBell plans to culture and study in special, pressurized test tubes...
...Jolla, Calif...
Florence's plan for conquering the Channel was fairly simple: just to get in and swim "as fast as I can." Her father, a retired San Diego policeman, and Trainer Henry Gunter agreed. They had watched her win the 2½-mile race at La Jolla, Calif, ten times in 18 years; they thought she had the power and stamina for the Channel grind...