Top Aides Worry Over Dulles Cancer Fight
President Eisenhower and top aides faced concern as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, appearing thin and fatigued, returned to Walter Reed Army Hospital after irradiation treatment and doctors ordered further medical observation. Officials indicated Dulles would need additional abdominal cancer treatment before any return to Washington.
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TILT Eyed Beachcomber Faces Geneva Open
A beachcomber type WM is tipped for another strong day as coverage notes his eyes light up and a tilt noted during a Sunday outing. The piece mentions Dulles and Eisenhower context with Geneva talks opening May 11 and references an illness recovery. UPI reports a Chicago motel bust: 15 young men and two girls detained after a goofpill and sex party.
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Dick Paints Types Plays Xylophone
Nineteen year old Dick Holmes, paralyzed below the neck from polio, uses an iron lung at night and a Huxley machine by day. He has retrained his breathing through frog breathing and sharp mental resolve, showing remarkable progress beyond years of illness and hardship.
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Red Skelton’s Daughter Hurt In Horse Accident
Valentina Marie Skelton, 12, was thrown from her horse Cody at Fox Hills Stables Culver City suffering facial cuts and a bruised shoulder. The incident adds to a history of family tragedies including son Richard’s leukemia death and Red Skelton’s past cardio-asthmatic attack. A Defense Department official indicated an imminent polar orbiting Discoverer satellite launch from California at Vandenberg AFB.
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Freshman ends 50 hour ping pong marathon at USC
Thayer Holbrook an engineering major at the University of Southern California quit after a 50 hour table tennis endurance contest at Tau Kappa Epsilon. He outlasted a dozen male and two female opponents before citing classes tomorrow. In Visalia a light plane crash killed all four aboard after takeoff from Visalia Airport. The DC7 airliner emergency landing near Akron after dual engine failure carried 69 passengers with no injuries. Sammy Jennings, seven, is reunited with his family after a night lost in rugged western Colorado.
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Southland Beach Crowds Fill Coast as Heat Draws Bathers
Massive holiday crowds packed Southland beaches from San Clemente to Santa Monica with more than 800000 sunbathers. Lifeguards rescued over 90, including 124 swimmers pulled from surf and five rescues at Long Beach and lagoons. Two brothers drowned in a 15 foot pool along the Los Angeles River bed after a companion’s efforts failed.
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Tip by Boy 16 Traps Suspect in Robbery
A 16 year old remembered the getaway car from a market holdup in Compton leading to the capture of suspect Mitchell Gipson 23 within thirty minutes. Police found nearly 600 dollars hidden in Gipson's bed at 2520 West Compton Boulevard after the youth and associates spotted the car. The armed robber held a revolver on checker Terry Paul Caster 20 during the theft, as the bandit loaded groceries and fled.
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Boat overturns four men rescued near Coronado Islands
Four fishermen were rescued after their plastic outboard motor boat overturned in choppy waves near the Coronado Islands five miles off the Mexican coast. The survivors named are Rolyn E. Anderson, Eli Pangoli, John R. Bergmann of San Bernardino, and Richard Estabrook of Fontana.
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Sentenced to Death Nye Flees Cuba Case
UPI reports Alan Robert Nye a U.S. citizen was condemned by a Cuban revolutionary court for hiring to assassinate Fidel Castro. He fled Cuba within 48 hours reaching New Orleans then Chicago aboard the first U.S. commercial flight. Nye a former Korean War Navy bomber pilot declared innocent.
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Brown Leaves on Quickie Tour
Gov Edmund G Brown departed Sacramento for Eureka to begin a border to border tour of California. He aimed to inform voters on his administration’s achievements and to gauge public approval of his program by asking for voter and taxpayer input.
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Independent circus misadventure with elephant incident
In a chaotic playground scene independent observers report a careening event narrowly missing children. The page notes Dorothy the circus elephant experienced a geographic abortive incident, with related details scattered across pages B-1 and A-7.
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Attorney Delivers Baby Aided by Medic on Phone
A Torrance attorney Delivers his wife's premature baby with a Long Beach physician giving instructions by telephone. Herman Hitt 39 rushed to the phone as Dr Gean and Dr Orme coordinated the delivery from 12 miles away. The five pound daughter Martha arrived moments before help could reach.
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