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With its siren muted and its red emergency beacon flashing, the ambulance sped through the quiet, post-holiday streets of Georgetown to the red brick home of President-elect John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby...
...LIFE AND OPINIONS OF T. E. HULME (233 pp.)-Alun R. Jones-Beacon Press...
...while the Beacon, which publishes afternoons and Sundays, seemed to be closing in on the more substantial Eagle, which prints both morning and afternoon editions as well as a Sunday paper. But the Eagle began making up its lost ground, now has a combined daily circulation of 183,191. In recent years, the Beacon has lost money steadily, and at last the surviving Levand brother, John, 69, let it be known that the paper was for sale. Among the buyers attracted was Eagle Publisher Marcellus Murdock, 77. Last week Murdock acquired the Beacon for $900,000 cash and assumption...
...extinguished Beacon might wind up behind a hyphen on the masthead of the Eagle's afternoon edition, and room may be found for a few Beacon editorial hands on the Eagle's staff. But what really interested the city, after 32 years on a starvation newspaper diet, was a possibility raised by the dying Beacon itself in a farewell editorial: "It may be that Wichitans will read better newspapers than they have seen...
Morison and his staff witnessed all major U.S. naval operations, interviewed top brass and boot seamen; after the war, he settled down on Boston's Beacon Hill and rolled out volume after imposing volume. Before his mission was accomplished, Morison retired from both Harvard and (as a rear admiral) from the Navy. But only last year, at 72, he published John Paul Jones and thus sailed another Pulitzer prizewinning biography into port...