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...Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into the act, when 29-year-old Mrs. Carmen Araiza talked of enchiladas and children for 93 hrs. 36 min. 9 sec. over Topeka's WREN. Ready to challenge the new champion was Mrs. Edith Fisher, 29, a clerk in a mailorder house in Rocky Mount, N.C., who had been briefly champion with 91 hours, and was raring to try again. Allowed Edith: "I feel as fine as a frog hair split four...
...Only four spellers were left: Stanley A. Schmidt, 14, entrant of the Cincinnati Post and station WCPO (each contestant was escorted by a markedly unobjective newsman from his home-town paper); Terry Madeira, 13, Harrisburg Patriot and News; Tina Strauss, 13, Pittsburgh Press: and 14-year-old Jolitta Schlehuber, Topeka Capital...
Also, Mrs. Sarah M. McCoy, New York City; Mrs. Marilyn S. Matthews, Cambridge; Mrs. Ann E. Rose, Washington, D.C.; Rebecca A. Stafford, Topeka, Kan.; Stephanie von Susich, Framingham; Mrs. Sarah M. White, Rensselaerville...
...Donald Felt, 40, leader of a bomb and torpedo air group from the carrier Saratoga, was snapping out his orders as he eyed the Japanese light carrier Ryujo with cruiser and destroyer escort from 14,000 ft. Just after Ryujo turned into the wind to launch fighters, Don Felt, Topeka-born, Annapolis '23, pushed over his first wave of bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group's four to ten 1,000-lb.-bomb hits on the carrier. And while...
...Kansas' District Judge Beryl R. Johnson, speaking in Topeka: "As we climb the summit to confer, we must be mindful that the leaders who have described their dictatorship as a 'domination of the proletariat over the bourgeois,' have little regard for the sanctity of contract and do not believe that people have certain unalienable rights...