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District Attorney Edmund G. Brown's crackdown on bars from which bookies operate began here yesterday as a heat wave engulfed East Bay bookie parlors, including El Cerrito's notorious Wagon Wheel. — Jan. 21
Arthur C. Jenkins, San Francisco traffic expert, suggested an elevated freeway for buses over Market Street yesterday as an alternative to a subway. — Jan. 21
Two instead of the customary three boxing shows are booked this week in the Bay Area. For lack of a suitable main bout offering, Coliseum Bowl remains closed tonight. Wednesday in Oakland, Johnny Gonsalves, the ex-amateur titleholder, moves on top for his first ten-rounder. Jean Mougin, French lightweight, reportedly a toughie, will provide the opposition. Louie Thomas has a dandy for National Hall Friday. Mungo Luciano, Butchertown walloper, goes in against Sonny (Sol) Leavitt, formerly of New York's East Side, who is now making his home in southern California. — Feb. 14
Localites bound for Europe include Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. and their sons, Mortimer III and David, who left via air for New York. The family group will sail for Europe for an extended tour of Switzerland, France and England and they will be joined in the early summer by their daughter, Delia, who is now attending school in New York. — March 22
First parachute jump off Golden Gate Bridge: Frustrated in a half-hearted attempt three weeks ago and jailed for disturbing the peace and creating a public nuisance, Robert Niles yesterday eluded California Highway patrolmen on the bridge, hit the water feet first after his chute had blossomed on a brisk wind, was picked up by a waiting boat — and brief moments later was jailed again after Coast Guard craft moved in. — April 16
Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini dies: "Death came suddenly yesterday to the financial genius who left his indelible imprint on San Francisco and the nation as he rose from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest bankers of the United States." — June 4
Billie Holiday, blues singer, was acquitted by a jury of six men and six women on a charge of possessing narcotics. Miss Holiday and former manager John Levy were arrested in a Taylor Street hotel last January. Levy, however, was not brought to trial. — June 4
California-born Tokyo Rose, sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years for wartime radio broadcasts made with intent to betray her native land by undermining the morale of the troops, was sent to federal reformatory to join Axis Sally, her counterpart in the European war theater. — Oct. 7
Hand in hand — as they did years ago when they were just a boy and girl — Yehudi Menuhin and his sister, Hepzibah, came out of the wings on the Opera House stage in curtain call after curtain call last night. Yehudi's violinistic genius has steadily enriched our musical scene for a quarter of a century. Hepzibah made her first mark as a pianist almost as long ago as that. — Dec. 29