Reviewer's Dreams and Changes in 1962 TV Plots
AP previews 1962 television, noting limited changes from 1961 as writers like Smith move to ABC and new productions and host lineups appear. It lists upcoming programs, games, and New Year specials including Dinah Shore, Blue and Gray All Star, NFL title game, Meet the Press with Dulles, Highways of Melody, and New Year’s Eve musical showcases.
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Dinah Shore
NBC
Ginger Rogers
Nat King Cole
George Burns
Montgomery
Ala
Green Bay Packers
New York Giants
Meet the Press
Allen Dulles
The
CIA
Jane Morgan
Gordon MacRae
CBS
Guy Lombardo
Xavier Cugat
ABC
Navy Quarterback Swoons Over Southern Beauty in Jackson
Navy quarterback Bob Hecht visits Jackson during the Christmas season to research whether Southern girls are prettier than Northern girls. Hecht hopes to meet Marguerite Richmond while socializing with her family, amid midwinter events.
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Hecht
Navy
Marguerite Richmond
Mississippi
John Quisenberry
Clinton
Clairton
Quisenberry
Jackson
Marguerite
Army
Richmond
Navy Star
Miami
Florida
Miss Richmond
Sandra
Bomb Threat Evacuates Washington Building
The Immigration and Naturalization Service Building in downtown Washington was evacuated after a phone threat from a man with a Spanish accent. Police searched the structure for an hour and found no bomb while 400 to 500 people were moved to safety.
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Washington
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Justice Department
East German farmer sentenced to death for arson
BERLIN AP An East German court has condemned a 50 year old farm worker to death for setting fires to two barns on a collective farm. He attacked the regime out of hatred for communism.
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Berlin
New Hampshire PUC approves phone rate cuts
The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission ordered about a half million dollars a year in rate reductions for New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. and directed a large portion of the cut to intrastate tolls. The ruling, unanimous, follows a 1960 earnings surge and faces possible rehearing or Supreme Court appeal.
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Concord
N.H
State Public Utilities Commission
New Hampshire
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
Haynes H. Fellows Jr
PUC
Commission
The
Fellows
State Supreme Court
Kennedy Administration Credits Civil Rights Progress
A year end Justice Department review cites progress in civil rights under the Kennedy administration while crediting local and state officials for desegregation gains. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy notes informal investigations and talks with officials, and highlights advances in voting, education, transportation, and equal opportunity programs.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Justice Department
Department
Kennedy
South
U.S. to Sell Yugoslavia 45 Million Worth of Surplus Food
The United States signed a long term credit agreement to ship 500000 tons of wheat and 30000 tons of edible oil to Yugoslavia, as aid and trade under a surplus food program.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Economists Exhibit Art at New York Hotel Show
A dozen college economists display art at the Commodore Hotel in New York in an American Economic Association event. Abba Lerner from Michigan State shows aluminum wire sculptures while William Baumel of Princeton presents wood works and paintings. Harry Johnson of Chicago carves wood figures, including an ant-eater titled Eager Student.
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New York
Commodore Hotel
American Economic Association
Abba P. Lerner
Michigan State University
Daliah
William J. Baumel
Princeton University
Arts Student League
Baumel
Harry G. Johnson
University of Chicago
Communist shells strike Quemoy Islands amid renewed firing
A Chinese Communist artillery barrage opened on the Quemoy Islands Wednesday night, firing 109 rounds. Earlier Christmas Day shelling targeted offshore nationalist-held positions, following 104 days of silence.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy Islands
Red
First Bennington Baby Scotts Holiday Visit
Scott Arthur Gage arrived in Cortland New York on December 19 and traveled by car at three days old to Bennington to meet his maternal grandparents Hi land Main Burgess Road and paternal Vernon Gage Gage Street. He is the son of Arthur N Gage and Ida Main now living in Groton New York with sisters Laura Lee and Cheryl Lyn. The family returned to Groton after celebrating with relatives in Bennington.
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Scott Arthur Gage
Cortland
N. Y
Bennington
Hiland Main
Burgess Road
Vernon Gage
Gage Street
Scott
Arthur N. Gage
Groton
Edgerton Named Third SCD Candidate in Bennington County
James M. Edgerton of West Arlington is named the third candidate for supervisor of the Bennington County Soil Conservation District replacing W. H. Burrington who was killed in a tractor accident. Albert Horst and H. E. Wilcox are the other announced candidates. Election is January 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the County Extension Office. voters may vote in person or by mail. Ballots by mail available from John C. Page at the extension office.
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James M. Edgerton
West Arlington
Bennington County
Main St
Page
Night of the Iguana May Signal Williams Farewell
Tennessee Williams declares The Night of the Iguana his final Broadway play. At the Royale Theater Bette Davis and Margaret Leighton star as critics note Williams questions commercial pressures and artistic vitality while delivering his characteristic tense, lurid drama set at a Mexican beach hotel in 1940.
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New York
Tennessee Williams
Royale Theater
Bette Davis
Margaret Leighton
Williams
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Presidential Commission On Equal Job Opportunity
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Dial
UP Drama Critic
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Mexico
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