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...belonged to Atlanta's new librarian. Two years ago, when Atlantans voted 1,700,000 to expand their 48-year-old Carnegie Library and its string of branches, the city gave the top job to fast-moving, chain-smoking John Carl Settlemayer, 38, onetime director of the Lincoln, Neb. library...
...less quipping, but he still managed to make small-type headlines. Samples: OLD PETE, BROKE, IN VET HOSPITAL; ALEXANDER COLLAPSES; GROVER ALEXANDER SENT TO BELLEVUE; NECK BROKEN, ALEXANDER WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL. Last week, at 63, Old Pete's troubles came to an end. Back in St. Paul, Neb., his old home town, he died peacefully in his sleep. Baseball fans, remembering the one-foot difference between hero and bum, remembered the record of one of baseball's greatest pitchers: 373 games won,* 90 by shutout, winning percentage...
After seeing Annie Get Your Gun, North Platte, Neb. Banker William H. McDonald, 89, who once lent Buffalo Bill Cody $4,000 to start his first traveling show, had a word of criticism: Ethel Merman and Betty Hutton were far more lively than the real Annie Oakley. As he remembered her, "she was a nice, quiet little woman...
...Lincoln, Neb...
...Force Base (Neb.), mid-continent headquarters of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command, an operations control officer made a routine notation in his log. Another night's work was done, another major U.S. city had been theoretically demolished by the U.S.'s mightiest atom-bomb carrier. More important, another weary plane crew had flown through much the same kind of weather over precisely the same number of mile it would have taken to deliver the bomb to the industrial heart of Russia...