Romney eyes Utah Senate seat from former Michigan governor
A Salt Lake City source says former Michigan Governor George Romney will seek the Senate seat now held by Wallace F. Bennett, with Bennett aged 73 likely to retire after his fourth term. Romney, ex AMerican Motors president and ex Secretary of Housing, resigned last fall amid Nixon era service. The item also notes Carleton University picks Herzberg as chancellor, and includes brief society notes on a Virginia wedding, a Santa Monica hospital update, and a Soviet Jewish activist drafted into the army.
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New Memoir Claims Missy LeHand Attempted Suicide in Isolation
A new FDR memoir by Bernard Asbell alleges Marguerite Missy LeHand, Roosevelt's private secretary for nearly two decades, tried death by own action in her lonely final years. The book cites manic letters, illness isolation, and a cited chicken bones incident as evidence amid revisions of Roosevelt's private life.
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Fugitives captured sleeping after Georgia farm family murder
Three Maryland suspects in the Donalsonville Georgia farm family killings were captured asleep beneath Murphys Cave in West Virginia while being led by a Moodhound from a Virginia correctional farm. The four fugitives escaped from a Maryland work camp last May and faced warrants for murder rape and kidnapping.
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BBC Plugging Scandal Rocks BBC and Figures Named
London AP reports a record plugging scandal with bribery and sex overtones. Dorothy Squires model James stones and six others were arrested at dawn by Scotland Yard. Miss Squires freed on bail, others held or charged. Prosecutions allege payments for vacation expenses and procuring prostitutes for BBC officials, with about $125 involved. Public reaction highlighted by BBC news coverage and tabloid headlines.
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Gibraltar
Edward Kassner
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Miss Jones
John Chris- Han-Dee
Poker's Cree Tops Slim in World Series of Poker
In Las Vegas the fourth annual World Series of Poker began after 12 hours with 6 of 13 players remaining. Jack Pree Tops defeated Amn: Fine Slim Preston late Thursday night to claim a pot over $1,000 while Pearson built a $25,000 pot by beating Cranda Addington earlier.
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Wizard" Hoff
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Jumping Frog Jubilee draws governors and mayors
Frog jumpers prepare for the century old Jumping Frog Jubilee in Calaveras County ANGELS CAMP entry from 29 governors 24 mayors and 14 foreign countries. Frogs will run preliminaries to reach the International Grand Finals for a top prize of 1200 dollars. The Gold Rush town, population about 2000, expects about 80000 visitors over the weekend with roughly 2000 frogs competing.
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Australian runs Grand Canyon to prep for Great Wall
A 51 year old Australian fitness instructor Bill Emmerton ran 22 miles up and down the Grand Canyon in four hours twenty minutes with a five minute rest. He claims readiness to run the 1,000 mile length of the Great Wall of China in about one month at twelve hours daily, aided by Australian diplomats seeking permission from Peking.
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