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...Esther Clark, 46, has been covering military affairs for the Phoenix Gazette longer than most of the Saigon newswomen have been out of grade school. Since 1948, she has jetted through the sound barrier, been the first woman reporter to spend a day at sea aboard a submarine, and received an Air Force award for outstanding service by a civilian. Like most of the others, the soft-spoken brunette has studiously resisted being toughened into "one of the guys." Now in Viet Nam because "I felt I had to try explaining to the people at home what is going...
Married. Omar Bradley, 73, retired five-star general, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-1953), board chairman of Bulova Watch Co.; and Esther Dora Buhler, 44, longtime family friend and TV scriptwriter (My Three Sons, The Cara Williams Show), who is writing a movie scenario of Bradley's life; she for the third time, he for the second (his first wife died last December); in Del Mar, Calif...
...services. Thus it was a characteristically canny decision on Lyndon Johnson's part not only to decree the new post of Special Presidential Assistant on Consumer Affairs in January 1964 but also to appoint a woman as the first holder of that office. Her name is Mrs. Esther Peterson, and if gimmickry, guff and guile are ever banished from the Eldorado that U.S. industry has created for the shopper, Esther may well go down in history as St. Peterson...
...months, Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell has taxed more than 70 judges with his legal evasions of a $46,500 defamation judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a widow whom Powell slandered on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. Last week acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Maurice Wahl rewarded Powell's "monstrous defiance of the law" by awarding Mrs. James the whopping...
...arrested a few days later, has been in jail ever since, and is under indictment on a first-degree murder charge. Police have been hunting for Martin and Hawkins for months, but apparently the two men are, like Powell himself, on the lam. As for his latest charge against Esther James, Powell probably would have been hit with another libel suit if he had made it anywhere except on the House floor, where he has immunity...