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Betsy Halstead at 24 is one of the youngest and most experienced female correspondents in Viet Nam. A Temple University graduate, she arrived with her husband Dirck two years ago-he to run U.P.I.'s photography desk, she to report for the bureau. Since then, the fast-moving Philadelphian has scored an impressive number of beats. She was the first reporter to witness and photograph a B-52 raid, and she was first to interview the mayor of Danang after Premier Ky called him a Communist and erroneously announced that he had fled the city. In her tailored sage...
...walls inside are papered with the buff, broad-lined sheets that take any Philadelphian back to his first days in school. The printing on them, broad and labored, is by six and seven-year-olds. "AFRO-AMERICANS ARE BLACK," several of them read. "I AM AN AFRO-AMERICAN. I AM BLACK...
...Philadelphia lawyer" has long been a layman's synonym for a shrewd or conniving attorney. But, last week, a luckless client whose funds had been embezzled or otherwise misappropriated by his lawyer could rejoice if the lawyer were a Philadelphian: the Philadelphia area now boasts the largest clients' security fund in the nation. Financed from association dues, the fund has reserves of $127,000 and it has paid claims amounting...
...University Club last week, the galleries were packed as two of the game's fiercest competitors had at each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and had never seen a squash...
...Honorable Judge Juanita Kidd Stout [April 16] must be the greatest Philadelphian since Benjamin Franklin, doing more to advance her race than any person since Booker T. Washington. Everybody should have a mother like hers. ERNEST L. MCLAUGHLIN Union...