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...days later, police got a call from Bobby Joe Kyle, a patient in the 49-bed psychiatric ward at St. John's Hospital, who claimed that his roommate had confessed to the crime. Unfortunately, Kyle did not know his roommate's name. He asked Nurse Elaine McCall to identify him, but she refused. Reason: McCall believed his name was shielded by a state law guaranteeing the privacy of mental-health records. Hospital administrators backed her up, even after she was fined $250 by a county judge for refusing to give the man's name to a grand...
...fiery redhaired, old-style prairie stem-winder. Last year his First Southern Baptist Church in Del City listed 2,027 baptisms by immersion, a record for the S.B.C. and, presumably, any other U.S. Protestant group. In opposition to Smith's candidacy, anti-Smith moderates fielded distinguished, disarming Abner McCall, 66, former president of Baylor University. McCall was described by his backers as "a Lincoln who can preserve this Baptist union...
...atmosphere reminiscent of a political convention, 13,000 "messengers" to Los Angeles cast computer ballots and gave Smith a 61% majority. But McCall seemed satisfied. His 39%, he said, would be sufficient warning to Smith and his friends not to pack the seminary boards with hardliners...
Only Martha Roberts failed to come back after a first set loss. Playing number four, Harvard's captain did come close, hanging tough against Brown's Kate McCall before sinking...
...live again in a series of anecdotes. John O'Hara, who once threatened to "break every bone in your body" after Mayes refused to send him $25,000 forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both go out and stand on the curb," she advised, "and pretty soon somebody will come along in a car and recognize me and offer us a lift...