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But he is best known as a torrential talker. His lifelong talkathon has made history and legend: he will talk all night on any subject, at any length (the longer the better), to any audience, on any occasion. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The Liberal Flame | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Last week these strands came together in Phoenix, Ariz, in one of the great whodunits of airline history. They began to meet when the FBI arrested Robert Vernon Spears, presumed dead in the crash, but found alive and well. Had Al Taylor then gone to his death on the DC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Naturopath | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

To the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Beat in Dallas | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

But by 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Beat in Dallas | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Beat in Dallas | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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