Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-31


stanford is a taxable univer-
sity. Almost as taxable. indeed
as Richard M. Nixon. who seems
TO be extravagantly in the con-
versation around here these days.
There is the California
weather, for instance.
This is disappointing to q
visitor in only one respect. This
Is that it is actually as delightful
as CalifornianS keep saying.
This, of course, refers to the
weather around San Francisco
and Palo Alto to the south and
Belvidere to the north.
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PRIVATE WEATHER:
San Francisco has the most
private weather in the western
hemisphere (see. he's talking
like a Californian. This is to
say that it seems to stop at the
city limits. North and south
of the city proper, at Sausilito
across the Golden Gate Bridge
and at South San Francisco
down the freeway (101), it is
from 10 to is degrees warmer
than the temperatures one reads
in those national weather tables.
That high of go in these charts
is rs in what our weather bureau
calls "the suburbs"
Moreover, the atmosphere
could not vary more in color if
the city and its next door neigh
bors were 1000 miles apart. San
Francisco is painted a gray, from
dark to light, by the Japanese
current which is one of natures
more somber artists. Not always,
Of course, but often enough to
make dramatically violent the
contrast between the city and
the dazzling blue and gold of the
whole adjacent landscape.
There was a day of sheer Wis
ual enchantment, for instance,
when from the top of Belvidere
Island at the Ted Elliot's home,
the towers of the two bridges and
the city's tallest skyline climbed
celestially golden out of the mists.
At that moment, San Fran
cisco wore all of a sunny days
loneliness as its halo. At that
moment, too. a stranger under
stood the sentiment behind that
California euphemism, "a high
fog" 1t became so easy to forgive.
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THE GOOD LIFE: Not every
one in California is rich but it
is an excellent idea to know a.
number of people who can afford
to live on mountain tops. AS a
means of getting away from it
all, there is nothing like a noun
tain top although many Califor-
mans do manage comfortably
with two-acre lots surrounded
by high fences.
In such a socially active area,
the visitor becomes a gaily be-
wildered voyager from mountain
to mountain.
The Elliots' at Belvidere is
the most dramatic, perhaps.
But, there is the Herbert and
Lou Hoover home at 623 Mirada
on Stanford's campus. The
Hoovers gave it to the university
and it is now occupied by Wally
and Ann Sterling, he the most
congenial president any uni
verSity ever had. The Sterlings
are terrace jewellers, when a
dizzily busy life permits, with
a view across a wide, rich valley
which not even the dirigible
hangers at Moffett Field can
mar.
The Norman Philbricks, he's
executive head of the univer-
sity's drama school but on his
sabbatcal quarter. and just
starting their house. 1t is a.
block long, or will be, L-shaped,
and with a view all the way to
San Francisco go miles away
on a fogless day. AS a founda-
ton. it is the most impressive
a man ever laid eyes on.
AS houses and sites go, the
one that gives the most vivid
impression of being about to
take off into space is the John
c. Dodds. 1t is sensational, in a
tasteful way, a cozy not-quite-
out-of-this-world space ship.
DR.. DoddS whose latest book is
"The Age of Paradox" and
wildly readable. is using what