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Last week, when another holdup man tried the same thing, good citizen Reddish, 53, again resisted. This time the gunman got away. Behind him he left brave Alfred Reddish, shot through the head, dead...
That last sigh was drowned out by the fanfare of Wallace's first editorial, full of brave, sometimes disjointed rhetoric. Wrote Wallace: "I prefer to accept the willingness of the Soviet leaders to think more and more in democratic terms. . . . We cannot hide the weaknesses in our democracy. If we take steps to overcome these weaknesses, then I believe the Russians, believing in the genuineness of our democracy, will move toward greater political freedom...
...Last Look. Sergeant Karl Zimmerli, another member of the Swiss rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told...
...capital's most striking relatives back in the Herbert Hoover era broke into the papers again with a bang (and a Hat) the day after the great Republican landslide. Photographed with Bess Truman at the Washington Club was Dolly Gann, onetime vice presidential sister, whose brave struggles in the capital's social war used to make national news...
...Dough. The Sun's left-handed little brother in Manhattan, PM, last week ran its first ads, in its own brave effort to pay its way. On its current small circulation (170,755), its first rate card offered no bargain. At a flat rate of 60? a line, it cost general display advertisers up to four times as much to reach a PM reader as it cost to talk to New Yorkers through the other eight dailies...