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...Journal was embarrassed to learn that D'Alfonso could (but wouldn't) be prosecuted for unauthorized use of the uniform of a friendly foreign power. But the rival San Diego Tribune-Sun was even more embarrassed. Said its banner headline, before the truth was out : RED COLONEL SEIZED AT S.D. MANEUVERS...
Also gone with the balloon was a banner which was suspended about 50 feet below it. In fact, the only thing the pranksters did not take was the crossbar of the sign and a few feet of the extra-strong twine which anchored it about 300 feet...
...will. Times-Herald staffers were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about the countesses, ex-countesses and other celebrities in the fight over the will. In a crowded elevator he saw a Times-Herald banner headline: COUNT BERNADOTTE SLAIN. "Gripes," he breathed, "they're getting everyone on the paper...
...excitement of a World Series, the rags-to-riches Bums beat the Braves in the opener, 8-7, and seized first place amid pandemonium in the bleachers. A couple of hours later, amid more pandemonium, the Braves took it back, 2-1, and Brooklyn's bright blue banner was hauled down. One big reason why it was too soon to count the faltering Braves out: Shortstop Alvin Dark, whose fat .331 batting average, made him a likely Rookie-of-the-Year...
...Under banner headlines, the press of Baltimore pitched into a murder story from nearby Aberdeen. An 18-year-old girl had been strangled by her former fiancé, who drove around for hours with her body in his car while he was getting up the nerve to shoot himself. Half an hour after Hearst's News-Post went to press, the man changed his story in one important detail: he had actually killed the girl while they were inside the Baltimore city limits. That brought the murder case within the range of the state courts in Baltimore...