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...offspring proved to be what medical archivists call a monster, a boy (or boys) with two heads, four arms, a fused trunk and two legs. Without letting Mrs. Hartley see the baby, Dr. Chattin got it breathing. Then he rushed it to the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. There, this week, the baby astonished medical men by continuing to live. And the Chicago Daily News shocked its readers (especially mothers-to-be) by printing its picture...
...drinks with the girl, quarreled with her in the park and knocked her down. As he walked away, he said, "I looked back and saw a soldier helping her up." Hall was convinced. Still talking on the phone, he scribbled a hasty note to City Editor Jack McDowell: "Whitcomb Hotel tailor shop (Rodriguez -killer)." Reporters John Keyes, Walsh and two photographers raced to the Whitcomb, found Rodriguez at the phone, still talking to Rewrite Man Hall, and hustled him to the Call's city room...
After slapdash checking, Boston papers (Post, Herald, Traveler, Globe, Advertiser) and the Springfield Republican and News ran the story. Some used pictures of Richard S. Whitcomb of Longmeadow...
Then Richard S. Whitcomb set them straight. He had never been in Germany, never been court-martialed. In fact, at the time of Richard F. Whitcomb's conviction, he was president of a Boston drug company and his name was listed in the Boston phone book. The papers quickly printed retractions, but Whitcomb filed separate libel suits for $250,000 each against the Boston papers, the U.P. and the Springfield Republican and News...
Last week a jury awarded Whitcomb (now a brigadier general on active duty) a total of $65,000 against the Boston papers (Suits against the Springfield Republican and News, and the U.P.-which said Whitcomb was from Longmeadow-are yet to be heard.) The A.P., which had relayed the wrong name to the U.S. m the first place, was lucky. It had not picked up the beefed-up Boston stories, hence stayed out of trouble...