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Reporter McCormick went to see Galloway, 28, a Negro who had already served eight years of a life term as an accomplice in the holdup-slaying of a Detroit housewife. McCormick listened to Galloway's story, then for five weeks checked the facts himself. He dug up witnesses who said that at the time of the murder, Galloway was working at his job as a porter and handyman in a Detroit restaurant. An anonymous phone tip led him to another witness, who admitted he was at the scene of the murder and that Galloway was not involved. Finally...
...William Bannan that he had talked to more than 50 convicts who said they were innocent, but that not a one had ever convinced him. The warden agreed, but added: "There's one man in prison who has convinced me he's innocent. He's Willie Galloway, at Ionia [prison] doing life for a holdup...
Said Recorder's Court Judge Martha W. Griffiths: "Without the careful and painstaking investigation of Free Press Reporter Ken McCormick, Willie Galloway would of course still be in prison." Added Willie Galloway: "When the judge said I was freed, I didn't know what to say, the water was just running out of my eyes...
What about the Galloway? Back in Kansas City, Ike addressed the Hereford Association in a folksy chat that wowed the cattlemen and revealed the President as something of an authority on cows. "You know." he told his audience, "the old scrub cattle on the prairie began to disappear when I was a very young boy. There were all sorts of new breeds appearing-short horns. Angus, the white face and the Galloway. Whatever happened to the Galloway? He was a big black cow, you know, bigger than the Angus, and sort of woolly-haired...
...first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from Wonderful Town. This week's guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Elliott Nugent, Yul Brynner, Ezio Pinza, Alfred Drake and Cab Galloway...