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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1962
Page
1
Tennessee guard David Anderton dribbled out the final seconds as Georgia Tech held a lead and won 88 to 65 in a frosty game in Knoxville. The report notes the late misread and the decisive score, reflecting the visitors’ advantage.
Hollywood figure Mervyn LeRoy collapsed while introducing Walter O Malley at a B’nai Brith dinner honoring the Dodgers owner. He was rushed to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and listed in serious condition after the onstage incident at the Biltmore Hotel.
Hollywood reports teen LeRoy Daniel Biberman, 15, son of actress Gale Sondergaard and director Herbert Biberman, was arrested on suspicion of supplying narcotics to a 14 year old girl. He was freed today on a writ of habeas corpus. The girl was questioned and doctors treated Biberman after a festival crowd fainted during a standing ovation. Police cited possible violations of narcotics laws and Beverly Hills physicians provided medical aid.
Police arrested Biberman and three others after a woman revealed pills were hidden on her person. Officers found quantities of pills and capsules in McClain’s Hollywood apartment in a case tied to narcotics. Attendants at Cedars of Lebanon hospital provided details on the suspects, including LeRoyne Husted and Paul Byrne.
At Subic Bay a special effects charge for the film Na Man sigan Island exploded prematurely on the destroyer Frank Knox killing two U S Navy enlisted men and a Filipino civilian. The Navy confirmed no other casualties and the ship remained afloat. the dead sailor’s identity was withheld.
Ex-con Richard Banish, 24, of Cupertino, Calif., is held on federal kidnapping charges involving Misa Wanda Smalley, 23, daughter of New Mexico Senator I. M. Smalley. Banish says he joined to protect her after a man, known as Bob, abducted her in Albuquerque. They were later found at a Western Union office in Kansas City. Smalley and her mother flew there. Banish claims Bob planned to move the car toward Los Angeles. he alleges he tried to deter the others but feared for the woman’s safety. The FBI released no details of interviews.
In suburban Cleveland Heights an apparent death was reversed when two funeral home men wheeled Dr Je rome A Streem to Miller Funeral Home and one cried that he was breathing. Streem survived and was listed in fair condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Fragmentary text reports astrologers predicting catastrophe by Sunday or Monday while astronomers disagree. It cites India and Calcutta refugees, Ganges, and a list of places as people seek refuge, with quoted doubt from James S. Picker ing of the Hayden Planetarium.
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