Born In San Francisco On July: Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. After graduating from the University of California, in 1904, he drew sports cartoons for San Francisco newspapers until 1907 and for the New York Evening Mail from 1907 to 1921. He started syndication work in 1915, developing such features as "Boob Mc-Nutt," "Foolish Questions," and "Crazy Inventions." From 1938 he did editorial cartoons for the New York Sun and then for the New York Journal American.
Hearst was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1863, the only child of George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. His father was a miner who struck it rich and became a U.S. senator. Spoiled, able, enormously ambitious, William was expelled from Harvard for undue horseplay. Unruffled, he took over his father's moribund San Francisco Examiner in 1887, refashioned it with a blend of reform and sensationalism that he had learned largely from Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and made it a huge success.
Habitat: Areas where there is cover of low woods, thick brush, tall grass, and rocky areas where there are caves and crevices; digs burrows from 2 to 12 feet under ground; sometimes found in groups of varying numbers
Reproduction: Breeds July-September; young born February-April; 4 or 8 young, of i sex, as there are 4 per fertilized egg born at a time; born with eyes open, but armor soft and flexible; armor hardens as animal grows |