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Next day, stoutly denying any intent of censorship, CBS officials mumbled about "technical difficulties." Gypsy's sudden departure from the screen was just "a very odd coincidence." Said Miss Lee: "It was nearly midnight. Surely the kiddies aren't watching at that hour...
...Tourists: "A number of hotels already have made television installations. Here . . . the family group is sometimes discovered intact, mesmerized in front of the screen on their first trip to see the grandeurs of a large city, with only room service to turn to for sustenance...
...afternoon last week, Porter neatly packed his three bags. In one he put his will, written in the hotel room four days before and naming Mrs. Patterson's housekeeper his executrix. He laid his hat, watch and glasses on the dresser. Shortly afterwards, his body crashed through the screen of an open window of his room and landed on the sidewalk, six floors below...
...Knew Too Much." The coroner called Porter's death suicide, but next day Columnist Pearson hinted that it might have been murder. The circumstances, he said darkly, "are strange indeed, including the fact that Porter jumped-or was pushed-through a window screen. This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure...
...Lafayette, not far away, Purdue's Boilermakers were practicing in secret last week behind a high canvas screen. Businesslike Coach Stu Holcomb, who had been an assistant to Earl Blaik at West Point in the Davis-Blanchard heyday, had them hustling. He got the Boilermakers out on the practice field at an ungentlemanly 8:30 a.m., needled them with his impatient...