TV Star’s Wife Returns After Suicide Attempt

 Oct. 26, 1959, Mirror Cover

Reporters meet Virginia Arness at the airport and follow her home. Photographers ask James Arness, the star of "Gunsmoke," to pose with her, but he refuses.

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Oct. 26, 1959, Conelrad

Oct. 26, 1959: The front page teases a story about the Lions getting a bonus to beat the Rams, but I can’t find the story anywhere in the sports pages. Very curious … and the Conelrad frequency was a fixture of the Cold War era.

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