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Show -217- year in California, in an apartment that had proved to be too small. At the end of the year, he and his wife had looked for a house to rent or buy, but everything they looked a t proved to be more expensive than they could afford. The Professor had liked the year there. The magazine with which he had merged his oxm xas published in Sausalito, and most of the staff and many contributors, including the txro young men xrho had founded the magazine, lived there. They had also opened a bar, xmich xas intended to be a l i t e r a r y gathering place for xrriters of the area, and i t had been u n t i l the magazine over extended i t s e l f xmen the editor began publishing At the time books. WJcen the magazine ceased publication, the bar had to be sold too, and noxr, though the new editor tried to hold onto its l i t e r a r y reputation, i t xas patronized mostly by seamen and beatniks. When the Professor went there, he seldom had to pay for his drinks. The Sausalito exit xas only about a hundred yards beyond the freeway exit to the lookout. Backing his car out of the parking s t a l l , the Professor turned i t about, drove back onto the freeway, then immediately off again to wind doxm the h i l l side above Fort Baker. He passed the tunnel through the h i l ls that led to the Pacific beafch a t Fort Cronkite, then dropped doxm almost level with the waters of the Bay. The town, originally a fishing village, extended a l l the way doxm the h i l l side from the freexay above to the xaters below. Its shops and bars and restaurants xrere mostly on the single street that |