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...After Trunk Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd made her fourth escape from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix last December and was picked up within 24 hours, bets were laid that she would do it again within three months. Last week the bets were collected after police issued a terse bulletin: "Winnie Ruth Judd is missing...
...Sunday, Dec. 30, a pilot of an Air Force transport gambled 28 lives, including his own and the lives of 19 West Point cadets, against a few hours of flying time, and lost when his C-47 crashed in the mountains northeast of Phoenix, Ariz. Within 24 hours the weather had cleared . . . This was only one of a long succession of Air Force crashes attributed, at least by newspaper reports, to flying in bad weather...
...winning his fight. The P.G.A. tournament committee voted to approve Negro participation in P.G.A. tournaments. There was still one minor hitch: Negro golfers will have to wait, as all non-touring P.G.A. pros do, for entry acceptance from the local sponsor. This week's local sponsor, the Phoenix (Ariz.) Chamber of Commerce, announced that an entry by Louis, "as all other entries, will be accepted in good faith." Six Negroes will play in the qualifying round...
Even the small news reflected general unhappiness, despair, and ill will. A soldier killed in Korea had some trouble being admitted to the cemetery for veterans in Phoenix, Arizona, because he was a Negro; Maxim Litvinov, old Russian diplomat and symbol of Soviet cooperation with the West before and during World War II, died in Moscow while the Russian government did not exactly wax lyrical over his accomplishments; Governor Talmadge of Georgia complained about Negro and white entertainers appearing together on television; Boston's Mayor Hines cracked down on certain night spots for lewdness, condemning female impersonators and ordering burlesque...
...flight into the world of fantasy may be a disappointment to those who remember him for his more serious work, and even for the fanciful "Ring Around the Moon." For "A Phoenix Too Frequent" does not contain the well-constructed plot and incisive characterization which marked much of Fry's early work. It does, however, have a great deal of situational humor and a masterful contrast of high and low dialogue...