The Press: Headline of the Week

In the Washington Daily News:

'TEST TUBE' RACE WOULD FIND LIFE MONOTONOUS

Front Page Revisited

In fiction and in movies, if not always in fact, a good reporter can outsmart a dozen cops. Last week Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 160,271) made fiction into fact. To the Call's city desk came word that a 17-year-old girl had been found beaten to death in a clump of bushes in San Francisco's Mission Park. The staff hopped on the story and Reporter Bill Walsh soon turned up the names of the girl's boy friends.

He relayed them...

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