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...Joseph F.Gastright of Newport, Ky. was judged to be sound of mind after a lunacy hearing before a circuit court jury-a decision which not only gave him his freedom, but pleased 36,000 people who voted for him as Kentucky's secretary of state while he was in a mental hospital. ¶ FBI agents discovered that an excuse which 14-year-old Patsy Whiting of Green Bay, Wis. brought to school to explain a day's absence was incorrect. Patsy hadn't had a cold at all; she had ridden to Laona...
Fellow Felons. In Newport, R.I., after Mrs. Frances Cambra complained that a thug had snatched her purse while she was playing the slot machine at a club, cops seized the machine, then went looking for the two-armed bandit...
Later the Gardners moved to Newport News, Va., where her father went to work in a sawmill and her mother ran a boarding house. In school the kids made fun of her. She was shy with boys. "Here I was," she says, "this strange little hillbilly ..." She went to secretarial school, and, for one year, to Atlantic Christian College. Her girlhood, she says, was full of insecurities. "What a generation. No wonder we are all neurotic and crazy...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman, over Australia's Mervyn Rose, in the first all-foreign final in the history of the Newport (R.I.) Invitation Tennis Tournament singles...
...Savitt beat Kumamaru, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Though the Japanese did not distinguish themselves on the slow courts at Louisville, U.S. tennis fans will get a chance to see their stubborn base-line play on the faster grass of the tennis circuit (Southampton, Orange, Newport and the Nationals at Longwood and Forest Hills). And Ichy is looking ahead. He figures that in another couple of years the younger Japanese players will be on a par with the U.S.'s best...