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Died. Clarence Edward Groesbeck, 72, longtime chairman of the board of the vast Electric Bond & Share Co. public-utilities empire; in La Jolla, Calif. In the '305, with Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie, he led the fight against TVA and the New Deal's program of Government regulation of utilities...
Married. Ida Lupino, 30, high-strung Hollywood specialist in neurotic roles; and Collier Young, 39, Columbia studio executive; each for the second time; in La Jolla, Calif...
Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...
...same extravagant, affectionate way that they talk about their climate and their oranges. Their enthusiasm is adjectival: the university is big, varied, young, impatient, aggressive, progressive. Especially big. Its interests run as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. At Scripps Institution in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), Cal oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings, forests, and the world's biggest cyclotron...
...what grandmother called spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center in San Francisco, Mt. Hamilton, La Jolla and a citrus experiment station at Riverside. The last three are campuses only in the imaginative, California sense: they are mainly research centers. Not part of the University of California, and not state-owned: Stanford University (at Palo Alto), the University of Southern California (at Los Angeles), the California Institute...