Kandy Bar Kid of the Marines in Korea
James A. Michener profiles Lyle Lewis, 23, of Tacoma Wash known as the Kandy Bar Kid for extraordinary bravery in Korea. He has penetrated Communist lines over 40 times in two months, scouted positions for up to 40 hours, been ambushed five times and wounded once, yet returns to report enemy activity.
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First Marine Division
Korea
Kandy Bar
Lyle Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
Lewis
Ible
Italy claims first hydrogen bomb by Italian scientist
Rome reports the Giornale d Italia claims an Italian scientist Ubalda Loschi exploded Italy s first hydrogen bomb near an artillery station in central Italy. The defense ministry to issue a communique tonight. The paper says Loschi, a pupil of Enrico Fermi and associate of Bruno Pontecorvo, led the project since 1947 and that Italy reportedly jumped to the lead of the nuclear revolution.
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Rome
Giornale d'Italia
Italy
Italian Defense Ministry
Progovernment
Ubalda Leschi
Enrico Fermi
Bruno Pontecorvo
Prof
Leschi
Giornale
Loschi
Alcide de Gasperi
Defense Ministry
United States
Three survive as 12 fishermen face fate on Spare Time blast
Nine of twelve aboard the 33 foot Spare Time were missing after a boat explosion near Santa Monica at 4 p.m. yesterday. Three life jacket clad survivors James Knight Harold Halley and Buzzy Sackse were found 14 miles off Santa Monica by a searching boat. Halley was badly burned and hospitalized. rescued men were taken to Santa Monica. The wreck prompted Coast Guard and lifeguards to converge, with relatives awaiting updates as the list of aboard members was read.
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Santa Monica
James Knight
Harold Halley
Buzzy Sackse
Halley
Les Wiggins
Pete Peterson
Sackie
Othels
Wiggins
Press- Telegram
Gerald Drennan
Cardiff St
Los Angeles
Stanley Munn
Marvin Vollmer
Damask St
Everett
al Barber
Coronado Terrace
Carl Jackson
Coast Guard
Morris
Peterson
Flying saucers over capital puzzle Air Force
Radar and air liner pilots spotted glowing objects above Washington on a second straight weekend. Air Force says it has no proof they are saucers but will investigate with Wright Patterson and Pentagon units. F-94 jets were scrambled to pursue the unidentified highlights seen on radar and by pilots near the National Airport.
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Washington
Air Force
Pentagon
Air Force Technical Intelligence Center
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Civil Aeronautics Air Route Traffic Control Center
CAA
National
Potomac River
America Scores 2 More Victories in Olympic Games
American athletes added two wins at Helsinki. The U S basketball team beat Russia 86 to 58, marking its fourth straight win and extending its unbeaten run. In swimming and diving, David Browning Miller Anderson and Bobby Clotworthy finished first through third in the springboard event.
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Helsinki
Finland
United States
Russia
U. S
David
Skippy) Browning
Dallas
Texas
Miller Anderson
Columbus
Ohio
Bobby Clotworthy
Westfield
N. J
Schedule and section listings for the newspaper
A paginated index outlines where to find sections such as Beach Combing on B-1 Boyle page and bridge on B-2, classifieds on page 8, comics on B-4, crossword on B-8, editorials on A-12, financials on pages 3-6 and 7, obituaries B-8, radio B-5, shipping B-7, sports A-14 to A-16, theaters 4-10, temperatures and titles on B-T, and women's activities on B-2 and B-3.
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Boyle
Missing Girl Found Slain Near Santa Barbara Hills
The badly beaten body of 11 year old Mary Varis was found 15 miles north of Santa Barbara after she left a movie with Pat Mawry. Sheriff John D. Ross said the skull injury and broken jaw were fatal and there was no sign of rape. Mary was reported missing by her sister Clyde Whitlow. A 14 year old friend said six sailors followed them but made no advance. The body was discovered near Hobo Rock in San Marcos Pass by picnicker Wills Brooks.
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Santa Barbara
Here
John D. Ross
Mary Varis
Mary
Clyde E. Whitlow
San Diego
Pat Mawry
Hobo Rock
San Marcos Pass
Wills Brooks
Sunny and cooler tomorrow with light afternoon breeze
The forecast calls for sunny skies and a cooler day following an early morning low. Winds shift from west to southwest at 0 to 16 mph in the afternoon with some fog lingering early.
Cancer kills Sen. McMahon
Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut died at age 48 from cancer at Georgetown Hospital. He had undergone an operation in June and was stricken with lung cancer that spread to his back and pelvis. His illness ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Washington
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
Georgetown Hospital
Philip A. Caulfield
McMahon
Mac Mahon
Hiroshima
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Voice of Congress
Witness Fatal Plunge At Parachute Club Debut
Dorothy Berard, 24, fell 250 feet during a Budd Lake Sky Divers Club initiation in New Jersey. Her husband Joseph Berard, organizer of the club, collapsed nearby as spectators urged her to pull the ripcord amid chaos and fainting.
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Lake
N. J
Dorothy Berard
Harrison
Joseph
Sky Divers Club
Budd Lake Airport
Berard
Sarah Hazelett
Union
Lum Beach Crowds Soak Heat as Lifeguards Rescue 70
Long Beach vendors and beachgoers endured a 91 degree high as 300000 flocked to the coast for relief from heat. Lifeguards performed more than 70 rescues along the ocean front amid rip currents and fog expected to thin by midmorning. A Buena Park boy suffered a fractured neck diving shallow water at Alamitos Bay and three men were tossed from the charter boat Chiquita when it struck a sand bar. Rescue crews saved two of the three men and treated others for exposure and shock. The Chiquita, valued at $8000, drifted onto rocks after the incident.
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Te Alamline Bay
aguEwo Way
Buena Park
Leonard McCartney
Burnham St
Community Hospital
Alamitos Bay Entrance Channel
Nick Vedenov
Huntington Park
Roy
Bullet) Baker
USC gridiron _immortal
Ocean Blvd
Baxter
Vedenov
LeRoy Jensen
Jim Smith
Charles A. Tames
Seal Beach
Truce Talks Stall Over Prisoner Exchange Deadlock
In Munsan Korea on July 28 UN and Communist staff officers debated minor changes to the armistice document but failed to ease the deadlock on prisoner exchange. The plenary discussions recessed until August 3 with no progress reported.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Judge Blisters VA for Loosing insane on Public
New York July 28 AP Judge Saul Streit blasted state and Veterans Administration mental experts for letting dangerous maniacs roam free. He spoke amid a first degree murder indictment of Bayard Feakes in the Columbia University slaying of Eileen Fahey. Feakes, if convicted, would die in the electric chair. his insanity plea was noted as he was sent for further tests at Bellevue. Streit urged courts to control institutions and warned against releasing dangerous patients to the public.
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New York
Saul &. Streit
Aera VA Peu Peewee Streit
Veterans Administration
Bayard Feakes
Columbia University
Peakes
Bellevue Hospital
Streit
Eileen Fahey
Columbia
Old Home Town Welcomes Nixon Home With Parade in Whittier
Whittier July 28. Nixon arrives at L A International Airport from Denver after conferring with Eisenhower. A hometown reception grows into a large state and local affair with a parade through town to Whittier College stadium for a reception in Nixon's honor Tonight Gov Warren Sen Knowland Lt Gov Knight and other officials attend. Wallace J Newman chairs the program.
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Whittier
Richard Nixon Nixon
Los Angeles International Airport
Denver
Colo
Dwight BD. Eisenhower
WhitUer College Stadium
Nixon
Earl Warren
Will Liam ¥. Knowland
Goodwin J. Knight
Wallace J. Newman
L A Woman Falls From Plane Over Atlantic
An American-born woman, Marie Elizabeth Westbrook Capellaro, fell from a Pan American Stratocruiser after a door blew open 12 000 feet above the Atlantic during a Rio to Montevideo flight. She was the widow of U S Air Force Col Robert B Westbrook and had planned to marry Emilio Capellaro. The plane returned to Rio and Brazilian Air Force planes searched the area.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Pan American Airlines
Atlantic Ocean
Marie Elizabeth Westbrook Capellaro
Bessie Machris
Los Angeles
Calif
Emilio Capellaro
Rome
Italy
Capellaro
U. S. Air Force
Robert B. Westbrook
Montevideo
Uruguay
Cape Jaro
Rio
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