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...First Blush. In Wichita, Kans., officials declared a one-day moratorium on the usual traffic tickets which lead to fines, instead had policemen pass out tickets chiding errant motorists in bold red letters: "Shame...
...Year." Born in South Amboy, N.J., the O'Briens decided to go to Seattle in the summer of 1949, when they met Coach Al Brightman, who doubles as Seattle's baseball coach. Scouting a semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kans., Brightman was taken with hard-hitting Shortstop Johnny (last year's average: .433) and Outfielder Ed (.431) of the South Amboy team.* When Brightman heard that the twins were also good basketball players, he made them a scholarship offer (free tuition and $75 a month for living expenses...
...Trainer. To Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co., the Air Force awarded a contract to develop the first jet-powered primary training plane. Powered by two French Turbomeca engines the trainer will have a top speed of more than 403 m.p.h. Cessna expects to have it ready for its first flight in September...
...sight, and more. "The hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberration has been discovered," he wrote then, "and skills have been developed for their invariable cure." But to Science Fictioneer Hubbard, these achievements soon seemed like kid stuff. He broke with the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation in Wichita, "to further pursue investigations into the incredible and fantastic," as the foundation puts it. Now, the founder of still another cult, he claims to have discovered the ultimate secrets of life and the universe, and to be able to cure everything, including cancer...
...papers across the nation, the news broke with a splash. Headlined the New York World-Telegram and Sun: CROONER SENDS BLONDE INTO A TRANCE. Said the Long Beach Independent: LOVE SONG HYPNOTIZES BEAUTY. The Wichita Eagle carried a Page One picture of a "petite, shapely blonde, still unidentified . . . after she fell into a 'trance' while listening to Baritone Singer John Arcesi sing Lost in Your Love at a Las Vegas nightclub." U.P. and I.N.S. put the story on the wires. Though many newsmen suspected the story, they still ran it, and thus fell for one of the most...