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...angry Dallas newsmen outside the two-story brick house at 6116 Gaston Avenue, Edmund Barker, news director of radio-TV station KRLD, the local CBS outlet, seemed a traitor to the reportorial trade. Standing beside Barker on the front porch was gaunt, tearful Frances Spears, wife of fugitive Naturopath Robert Vernon Spears (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). When the other reporters tried to question Mrs. Spears, Barker shooed them away, ushered her back into the house, explaining: "Her kids have to have a bath." Growled one newsman contemptuously: "Are you going to give it to them...
...last week's end, Barker's colleagues had been forced to swallow their scorn. Chubby Eddie Barker, 32, had got himself the news beat of many a long month: in an exclusive taped interview with Barker, Frances Spears confessed that she had secretly visited her husband in a Dallas hotel nearly two months after he had presumably perished, along with 41 others, in a National Airlines DC-7B that crashed last Nov. 16 in the Gulf of Mexico. How Barker got his story was almost as interesting as the story itself...
Confidence Man. When the FBI first began hinting last fortnight that ex-Convict Spears might still be alive and in hiding after duping a friend into boarding the National Airlines plane, Radio Newsman Barker called Mrs. Spears, got her to agree to an interview. In that first innocuous interview, Frances Spears insisted that if her husband were alive he "would be here with me and the babies." But if Barker did not at that time get much of a story, he got something else: Mrs. Spears's confidence. She named him her "press adviser," let him stay...
...frantic order was issued, and the presses were stopped. The ad was yanked and replaced by one from the Barker Bros, furniture store. Timesmen dashed into the night in a desperate and only partly successful effort to retrieve 35,000 copies already distributed. Someone called the churches: they did not know Jesus Christ...
...most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...