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...Mild-mannered Republican Attorney General John Anderson Jr. campaigned through all but two of Kansas' 105 counties this year to blast away at the tight budgets and free-and-easy prison paroles of ailing (bronchial condition) Democratic Governor George Docking, trying for his third term. Anderson's round-the-clock plugging paid off: he ran behind Richard Nixon, but well enough to toss Docking, a conservative banker from Lawrence, out of office...
...Southwest landscape painter, who in 1898-when his wagon broke down while he was on his way to Mexico on a sketching trip-stayed on in Taos, N.M., founded an artists' colony that attracted Max Weber, John Marin. D. H. Lawrence, Willa Gather and Mabel Dodge Luhan; of bronchial pneumonia; in Albuquerque...
...heavy medical expenses. Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down. And her son Carol (the Caryl spelling is his own invention) was sick and undersized, afflicted with bronchial asthma, chronic nasal congestion and a pale, dolorous, big-nosed, droop-lipped face...
Died. James J. Maloney, 63, longtime (1931-51) U.S. Secret Service agent, and briefly chief (1947-48), who was kicked upstairs to U.S. Treasury law enforcement coordinator after prematurely preparing a Secret Service guard for unsuccessful Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey on election eve in 1948; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...
What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator? The Chinese knew. Thy were at war with Japan in 1937, and they invited him over to whip their hodgepodge of an air force into battle trim. Now he was in his natural element. He sent radio-equipped coolies to the far frontiers to crank out warning of every Nipponese air strike. He saw the big show coming, and by Pearl Harbor, bossed an air force of trained American volunteers, which never numbered more than 55 flyable P-40s and 80 pilots. For $600 a month...