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WORDS, WORDS, WORDS: Press release, dated March 31, from the S.F. Chamber of Commerce: "Officers or employees of the City of San Francisco should be local residents, according to a statement unanimously adopted by directors of the S.F. Chamber of Commerce. `San Francisco provides cultural and community facilities not surpassed anywhere in the United States,' said President Alan K. Browne. `Housing is of high quality and variety and rental units of all types are available.' "
The above hotflash was prepared and distributed by the Chamber's publicity mgr., James D. Warnock, who lives at 3602 Bryant. In Palo Alto.
IN ONE EAR: Matson's big Mariposa sailed back into S.F. Bay this wk. minus one crew member -- a 42-yr-old S.F. waitress, who, in a fit of despondency, leaped overboard bet. Auckland and Sydney; the ship searched for six hrs. with no luck . . . Pat Suzuki, the S'Jose Japanese singer who's now a smash on records, is about to get her Big Break; she'll play the lead -- a Chinese doll -- in Rodgers & Hammerstein's B'way musical based on "Flower Drum Song," the best-seller by Sausalito's C. Y. Lee . . . Whaddever happened to Fortnight magazine??? . . . Pat Cosgrove, who pilots a Lo-Fare Cab in Oakland, is still going around in a doozy of a daze. Sun. night, a guy named Gene Guthrie (with a doll) piled into his hack and ordered, "Reno, please." Pat delivered 'em to the door of Harrah's Club and collected his fare: $125, plus $15 tip.
BUSINESS NOTE: There were only 10 customers for the midnight show in one of our bigger jernts Monday, prompting the star to sigh: "I hope it's only the recession. I'd hate to think it's ME!"
BAY CITY BEAGLE: Over 400 of Billy Graham's followers -- wherever he goeth, they dittoeth -- will come to S.F. by special train from Nashville, Tenn., for the opening of their boy's Crusade at the Cow Palace April 27 . . . Lee Ann "Miss America" Meriwether, who weds B'way actor Frank Aletter here April 20, hopes she'll be in shape by then; meanwhile, she's bedded down at home with The Bug . . . Pfun on the Pfuninsula: That prominent El Camino character who's running for S'Mateo Supervisor has 30 signatures on his nominating papers. Among the first to sign (oh, the poor, blind pfool): the big S'Mateo politico whose wife is the character's girl friend! Glug . . . More pfun: Atherton's Judy Petersen, the million-dollar divorcee, went out of town last wk-end and needed a baby-sitter. Got one: her ex-husband, Merlin . . . Add nize gestures: Edward G. Robinson's "Middle of the Night" folded for keeps here last wk-end -- and the producers gave the expensive set to S.F.'s Actors Workshop, free for nothin'.
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