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...Shoe Fit. In San Antonio, after he had received an anonymous letter from a wronged husband who said that he intended to kill his cheating wife and her boy friend two days hence. Sheriff Owen Kilday read the message over station KITE and asked the would-be killer to give himself up, within two hours received calls from ten fearful women asking for police protection...
...there not one Kohler among the automakers in Detroit with the guts to tell Reuther to go fly his socialistic kite...
Although radio interview's with holdup victims are old hat. Victim Harry Ingersoll, 44, a San Antonio loan company owner, reluctantly set a precedent last week in the annals of crime broadcasting. He was interviewed by San Antonio's KITE while the robber still held a gun on him. KITE's Newsman Harry Van Slycke picked up a police alarm of a holdup at Ingersoll's office, rang up Ingersoll and turned on a tape recorder. At the scene of the crime, the young gunman ordered Ingersoll to answer the call and act natural...
Within 30 seconds, Newshound Van Slycke had his hot tape on the air. KITE then wrapped up the story with another "on-the-spot report" when one of the station's own secretaries just happened along the street a few minutes later as cops collared the fleeing robber and his $455 loot...
...industry any time he decides to quit the service. On top of that, the sergeant, who is a line chief, has the satisfaction of doing a job that is vital to his country's survival, and on top of that he has the pleasure of rigging the craziest kite a grown-up boy ever had: the $9,000,000, 400,000-lb., eight-jet, 650-m.p.h...