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First photo of Ed Sullivan in the hospital, after the accident, with his wife Sylvia — who says he was always most concerned about what had happened to the others.
With daughter Betty, Ed visits the bedside of' son-in-law Bob Precht. Betty and her mother had thought, from first reports, that Ed was the only one who was injured.
the Great Big "IF"
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Twisted wreckage bears mute but terrible witness to the violence of that night's head-on collision, which brought
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The Ed Sullivan Show is seen over CBS-TV, each Sunday night, from 8 to 9 P.M. EST, sponsored by Mercury-Lincoln Dealers.
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he returned. They listed one fractured rib — but
he had broken eight, fractured his breastbone, bruised
his lung, and was constantly threatened
with pneumonia. Actually, Ed had suffered the
first great physical shock of his life.
"When you're on your back in a hospital, your mind runs in funny channels," says Ed. "Well, I've traveled a lot. Over the world. By car, train, plane. How many hundreds of thousands of. miles, I don't know. But I've never had an accident like this. I was fifty-five on September 28, and lucky to make it. But in bed I lay figuring, and I thought: Here it took me fifty-four years, ten months and nine days to arrive at an obscure spot on a Connecticut road at 1:25 A.M. where this was waiting for me! What I mean is this: I wasn't asking for it. I preach safe driving, and I practice what I preach. That (Continued on page 61)
Sullivan had never thought he'd miss a TV performance. But the show went on, in the best tradition, with Mario Lewis, co-producer, putting Presley through his paces.