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Widespread fear of violence at the demonstration last week led New Haven Mayor Bartholomew F. Guida to call for the Guard. Connecticut Governor John Dempsey later sent a telegram to Attorney General Mitchell asking for the federal troops...
...telegram to Attorney General John Mitchell asking for the troops, Dempsey said that "the possibility for domestic violence in New Haven. . . is and remains great." The telegram added that "the violence could escalate beyond our capacity to contain...
Died. Frederick E. Woltman, 64, veteran Scripps-Howard newspaper reporter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. In 1931, Woltman's reporting on a real estate mortgage-bond racket in New York City won a Pulitzer for the New York World-Telegram, but he is best remembered for his Pulitzer prizewinning series in 1946 uncovering Communist infiltration into unions, during which he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the Kremlin's principal agent...
Scott has never had much of a problem keeping his head out of the sand. When lobbying, manipulating and advertising for an Oscar reached fever pitch back in the early '60s, Scott sent a telegram to the Academy withdrawing his name from the nominations. His portrait of Bert Gordon, the ulcerous, vulpine gambler in The Hustler, is one of the modern screen's great essays in villainy, but not surprisingly, Scott failed to receive the Oscar...
...month furnished room that has been his home for the past five years, the other in his one-room office in the National Press Building. He rarely answers knocks on the door and sometimes lets the telephone ring; the surest way to reach him is to send a telegram...