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...Duroc'her, bellicose manager of the New York Giants, dawdled with a golf club while his neatly fabricated wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day, photographed a sunny scene for their family archives. Durocher's sunny mood and vacation will end next week, when he will be in Phoenix to start spring training, whip the world champion Giants into shape for aiming at their 18th National League pennant...
Latitude. In Chicago, after he tripped the burglar alarm on the safe of a currency exchange, Burglar Clarence Phoenix, 43, worked on complacently while he listened to approaching squad cars on his short-wave radio, was caught redhanded, explained sadly: "I thought I was in the next block...
Freedom's Voice. In Phoenix, Ariz., the state house of representatives voted to have all future bills read by charm-school Speech Counselor Mrs. G. William Shupe...
...back on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona, where he was born. He had not had a drink for two weeks, and was working as a cotton picker. His mother and father noticed that he seemed restless, but. Ira assured them that he was not going into Phoenix, not going to take a drink again. But when one of his brothers and a friend came by to invite him to a card and drinking party, Ira's resolution melted away. His mother waited up for him all night...
This week Ira Hayes will be buried, with full military honors, among his comrades in arms at Arlington National Cemetery. Not far away, his bronze likeness, in the Marine Memorial, reaches with outstretched arms towards the flag. Said a Phoenix policeman, who had arrested Hayes many times: "He was a hero to everyone but himself." Said Ira's grieving mother: "He was a pretty little...