Word: reddick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after 10 years of covering the Long Beach waterfront, the Los Angeles Examiner's hardboiled, cigar-chomping Ben Reddick hoisted his last drink at Shanghai Red's and moved to a more elegant section of the coastline. For $8,400, Photographer-Reporter Reddick had become owner, publisher and editor of the weekly Newport Harbor News Press. Far from succumbing to the easygoing ways of Newport's cruise-and-booze set, Newsman Reddick covered the town as if it were just another waterfront, turned his paper into an aggressive, news-packed triweekly (circ. 4,445) that not infrequently...
Last week Newsman Reddick, 43, almost covered his last story. Tipped off at 2 a.m. that an auto had exploded after plowing into a fish shack on the Coast Highway, Reddick was shooting flashbulb pictures of the wreckage when he heard a man's voice screaming: "Don't shoot!" A moment later a body hit the ground at his feet. As the newsman bent to examine it, a wild-eyed stranger jammed a .22 Colt automatic in Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look...
Instead of covering an auto wreck, Ben Reddick soon learned, he had been present for the last act of a murder. The fishstand owner who had come close to drilling Reddick had just pumped three bullets into his wife. He had turned on the gas jets in their apartment and was gunning for a neighbor when the building exploded. Pursued by the crazed husband, the neighbor saved his life-and almost cost Reddick his-by diving to the ground at the newsman's feet...
...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...
...June, Maryland Attorney General C. Ferdinand Sybert finally determined to get tough. Into Dorchester County courthouse marched Dr. Reddick, loudly charging that the A.M.A. was "out to get homeopathy." This week Judge Joseph R. Byrnes held that Reddick had engaged in a "bold conspiracy" to issue licenses "to persons wholly unqualified to receive them." Dr. Reddick and seven of his colleagues were as good as out of business...