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...pretty, bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh...
...mind questions, and it scored. "What," asked New York Daily News Inquiring Photographer Jimmy Jemail, "has been the effect on you of the recent scare stories relating smoking with lung cancer?" "Rather than give up smoking, I can't wait to change my name," answered blonde College Student Barbara Butkis...
After beating Defending Champion JoAnne Gunderson in the semifinals. Anne teed off in the finals against Barbara Romack Porter of Sacramento, the 1954 champ. Anne was tired ("I couldn't sleep last night") but philosophical ("I'd give anything to win the tournament, but I don't intend to spend my life trying to win it"). At the start, her swing looked flat, and Mrs. Porter had a three-up lead at the 18-hole lunch break, still led two-up after 26 holes. But she three-putted the 27th and Anne got her short game going...
...Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif. got a grant of only $25,000 from U.S. Steel, but it built a library that brought the school accreditation...
Married. Althea Louise Brough, 35, national women's singles tennis champion in 1947, Wimbledon champion in 1948, '49, '50, and '55; and Dentist Alan T. Clapp, 35, of Pasadena; in Santa Barbara, Calif...