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'ISN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING'Sister Believes Glenn Perfect For Space JobEDITOR'S NOTE: Thin In Ianother in a nerien of stories on the life and background of I.t. (ol. John Glenn, Cambridge native and New Corn cord resident, who will attempt thin country's first orbital space flight later this month.By K. K. BROWNMrs Jean Pinkston, sister of Lt. Col. John Glenn, remembers her brother as “a person always on the go and one who would try harder at w hatever he was doing than most people ”Mrs. Pinkston, who lives at 812 -N. Eighth St. with her son Bill, j a freshman at Cambridge High School, was a sophomore at New Concord High School when Bud”) enlisted in the V. S. Navy in 1942 Since that time she has seen very little of her now famous brother but still remembers vividly the days when they were children.Always On the Go She says that as a brother and 1 sister they were “very close when they were growing up in New Concord But even then she 1points out, “I didn’t see too much of him because he wouldalways be going somewhere. If he wasn’t playing baseball or some other sport he would be up at the Castors seeing his girl friend. Anna.“In fact, 1 can'l even remember him ever sitting down for more than a minute at a time ”Mrs Pinkston recalls how eon siderately John always treated her. even though she was the (Continued on I’sg® i. Col fi)ASTRONAUTS SISTER Mrs. Jean Pinkston, 812 N. EighthSt., is at her home looking at a picture of her famous brother,Lt. Col. John Glenn, who is scheduled to be shot into outer pact* in two weeks, the first American to take an orbital flight.Mate Shot BySocialite WifeWASHINGTON O’Pli - Detec-1 Portner said he was surprised lives tried to sort out conflicting jp. gaid he managed to pick up stories today about how financier a teU*phone and tell the operatorJay Gould’s great granddaughter shot her fourth husband in the stomach, seriously wounding him.• Continued on I’*r® * Col. 4)
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Wed, Jan 10, 1962
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