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Patsy Cline Overcame Grave Car Crash Injuries

Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 7 December 1962

PERSONAL tragedy is nothing to Patsy Cline, who sings of 'Heartaches' on her first big hit disc in Britain. Her fast-rising career was interrupted last year by a calamity that almost left her a helpless cripple — and cost someone else his life.

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