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...Rock's siren wailed across the Bay. Outside the cell block, James J. Johnston, 71-year-old warden, known to the inmates as "Saltwater" Johnston, radioed for help to San Francisco police and the Coast Guard. Johnston's remaining guards herded 150 prisoners out of prison shops and into the yard. Other prisoners crouched in their cells...
Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
...Roger B. Johnston '49--Dorothy Brooks (Cleveland...
Jane Russell's charms, as exploited in advertisements, got Producer Howard Hughes in trouble with the Eric Johnston (ex-Will Hays) organization. Producer Hughes was summoned to defend himself next week against "suspension or expulsion" from the organization for violating the standards of decency. Sample obliquities in a recent newspaper ad that carried robusty Miss Russell's picture: "The Music Hall gets the big ones," "What are the two great reasons for Jane Russell's rise to stardom...
...Among them: Eric Johnston's three Spokane companies (TIME, March 4), Williamson Heater Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Lance Inc., Charlotte...