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Back in the city. Starkweather had a new idea. As a garbage collector he had come to know the city's exclusive southeast side and its well-to-do homes. He eased into the driveway of a handsome French provincial house on South 24th Street, pulled into the garage, forced his way into the home of C. Lauer Ward, president of the Capital Steel Co. Starkweather prodded Mrs. Clara Ward, 46, and Housekeeper Lillian Fend, 51, to the second floor, bound and gagged them, then stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska...
...sweet song of a woman of great talent and simple dignity. Contralto Anderson acknowledged an honorary degree from Seoul's Ewha Women's University with the emotion-charged Negro spiritual, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, sang Home, Sweet Home with homesick U.S. 24th Infantry Division troops on Korea's front lines, explained Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to schoolchildren in Bangkok, told schoolboys in Malaya: "I might bring to your attention that hate and fear are two things with which babies are not born." There were many, but not too many, songs...
...onetime Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins (who died in 1937), Tony scrambled into show business on his own. He finished 24th in a class of 25 at the Browne & Nichols school, later thumbed his way to Hollywood, got a screen test, ended up playing in The Actress with Jean Simmons. In 1954 he took over from John Kerr as the troubled adolescent in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy...
PARIS, Nov. 5--Felix Gaillard tonight won approval as France's 24th postwar premier. The victory came on Gaillard's 38th birthday and gives him the distinction of being the youngest premier in French Republican history...
...better and better. Confident, his blood pressure under control, he practiced his putting during the lunchtime intermission with the old Cash-in club that was "loaned" to him nine years ago by a public-links pro back home in Memphis. Dentist Taylor managed to keep in contention until the 24th hole, then he began to come apart. Racking up pars and birdies with ease, Lieut. Hillman Robbins won himself the U.S. Amateur championship, 5-and-4. Said he: "I don't reckon I'll ever give that putter back...