Patterson Knocks Out Johansson, Undermining Illusion of Easy Wins
Editorial lauds Floyd Patterson for defeating Ingemar Johansson, arguing it debunks the easy training myth and highlights the value of Spartan, rigorous training. It notes Johansson trained in a plush setting and implies a rematch could see him try harder, though Patterson’s victory challenges the notion of a world championship aura.
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Floyd Patterson
Ingernar Johansson
Sweden
Johansson
Patterson
Letters Recalls Garden City School Days and Teachers
Madeleine Miller recalls Garden City teachers who shaped her youth, praising Mr. Damon Miss Gortam Miss Daugherty Miss Woodbury and Miss Dallas for fostering citizenship Latin math and music appreciation. She credits the Garden City schooling with preparation for her later work at RKO and Warner Brothers in New York City.
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Garden City
Damon
Gortam
Miss Daugherty
Woodbury
Miss Dallas
RKO
Warner Brothers
New York City
Madeleine Miller
44Th St
Woodside
Long Island, N.Y
Hal Boyle Says Desk Drawer Biographer of a Man
A New York AP column portrays the desk drawer as a silent biographer of a man's life. It tracks through ages 25 to 85, detailing personal items that reflect hopes, problems, failures, and victories. The drawer accumulates photos, cigarettes, pills, letters, and mementos, ending with a final empties into the wastebasket.
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New York
Argentina Faces Kidnapping Row and Political Upheavals
Drew Pearson reports on Argentina and Israel debating Eichmann's kidnap case at the UN Security Council while citing past Latin American abductions. The piece covers Chile’s handling of Peronist fugitives led by Patrice Kelly, later in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and Peru’s Haya de la Torre asylum dispute. It also notes U S antitrust nomination Bob Bicks, Senate scrutiny, and implications for Eisenhower.
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Washington
Argentina
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
U. N. Security Council
Eichmann
Peron
Patrice Kelly
Chile
Kelly
Punta Arenas
Rio Gallegos
Patagonia
Jerusalem
Santiago
Crimea
John W. Cooke
Senorita Blanco Luce Brum
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Juan Peron
Victor Raoul Haya
de la Torre
Apra Party
Peru
Lima
Western Hemisphere
Josus de Galindez
Columbia University
New York
Galindez
Leap Year Insight and Oddities in a Rural Dispatch
A quirky column notes Kansas as one of 24 states where men outnumber women, while nationally women outnumber men. It jokes about bachelor Bob Greer drifting along the Arkansas, then recalls a blooper about a Lafayette Parish woman jailed for observation after fleeing nude. It mentions a Phyllis Diller album, DIY cigarette materials, glow lipstick forecasts, a Texan with four Cadillacs, and a bridge club trend toward inviting fill-in players.
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Kansas
Symington Warns Russia Stronger Militarily
Senator Stuart Symington states on NBC Today that Russia is militarily stronger than the United States. He cites economic, psychological, and technological losses and argues the nation must pursue arms control to avoid nuclear conflict while weighing negotiating from weakness versus strength.
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Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Lyndon Johnson
McCarthy
Senate
House
Johnson-McCarthy
Afl-Cio
Adlai, Stevenson
Kennedy
Symington
Adlai Stevenson
Khrushchev
Stevenson
America
Kremlin
Massachusetts
Chris Herter, Jr
Rockefeller
YORK
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
United States
Today
NBC
Russia
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Justice Department
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Thurman Arnold
Republican Party
du Pont
General Motors
Bicks
Bill Rogers
Jim Eastland
Mississippi
Olin Johnston
South Carolina
Roman Hruska
Nebraska
Johnston
Tom Curtis
Missouri
E. McKinley Dirksen
Dirksen
Congress
Girla
Distaff
Bob Greer
Arkansas
Southwest
Lafayette Parish
Phyllis Diller
Anthony
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