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...found time to get married at only 16, a hasty marriage that still managed to survive for a year and a half. He was only a bit more successful at his studies. But he was a three-letter man (football, basketball and track), the finest all-round athlete in Walla Walla's history, and a cinch for any number of athletic scholarships...
...grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
Spelling It Out. In Walla Walla, Wash., a convict in the state penitentiary ripped open his package of three hollowed-out religious books, found, instead of an expected 3,000 Benzedrine-type pills, a note from the warden informing "to whom it may concern" that pill smuggling in the prison had been discovered...
...lean, greying native of Walla Walla, Wash, with a quizzical look, owlish spectacles and a black mustache. Morgan made his most memorable 1956 newscasts on a story of painful intimacy to him, the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Aboard and reported killed in the crash with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent...
...Washington's Fourth District, farm unrest also reacted against seven-term G.O.P. Congressman Hal Holmes, 54. Eastern Washington wheat farmers pinned their approval on Fellow Farmer Frank LeRoux of Walla Walla, who led Holmes by 1,200 after 142,000 votes in twelve counties had been totaled. But 10,000 absentees swung the decision back to Holmes by a slim 1,000 votes...