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Wyche took office as Tallulah's police chief last June 26, the only black to head the police department of any sizable biracial town (pop. 10,000) in the South. A down-at-the-heels mill and farming center near the Mississippi River, Tallulah has a reputation for brutality toward blacks; Wyche himself once saw a black man standing beside him gunned down by a white policeman -for little reason...
Police Chief Zelma Wyche of sultry, deep-Delta Tallulah, La., looks and acts the archetypal Southern cop. There is the ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...
...Cont'd) The U.S. Army last week filed charges against two more members of an America! Division company that attacked the South Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. Sergeant Charles E. Hutto, 21, of Tallulah, La., was charged with premeditated murder, rape and assault with intent to commit murder. Private Gerald A. Smith, 22, of Chicago, was accused of premeditated murder and indecent assault on a Vietnamese female. The action is preliminary to the possible convening of a court-martial for Hutto, now stationed at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., and for Smith, assigned to Fort...
...such an intimate story, all other characters are subordinate. But one actress has taken a minor part and nearly made off with the show. As Mrs. Chips' bony crony, Sian Phillips (Mrs. O'Toole offscreen) moves like Garbo, hoots like Tallulah, and seems quite the most animated skeleton since Halloween...
...Died. Tallulah Bankhead, 65, the iridescent and irrepressible empress of show business, whose gravel-throated cry of "Daaahling!" was part of the language for nearly half a century; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Beautiful and honey-blonde, the daughter of a wealthy Alabama Congressman, Tallulah could count only three genuine hits in a career that encompassed literally scores of plays and movies: Broadway's The Little Foxes (1939) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) and Hollywood's Lifeboat (1944). Yet even to the flops she brought the kind of fierce power and impish delight that captivated friend...