Local Stars and Events Highlight Bennington Area
Bennington residents note strong sales of the First Family record with estimates near 1000 copies in Bennington and several hundred more at individual stores. Phyllis Thaxter and widow Mrs. Larrowe figure in regional arts news with acting careers advancing, while local officials announce new hires and a poetry of community notices.
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Bennington
Phyllis Thaxter
Margaretta van R. Schuyler
Donald
Katrina) A. Hemenway
Od Bennington
Miss Thaxter
Gilbert Lea
New York City
New York
Comedy Dominates TV Schedule This Week
Sid Caesar short on ABC Tuesday 9:30 p m. Bob Hope Christmas show on NBC Wednesday 9 10 p m. Weekend sports return with ABC Challenge Golf on Saturday 2 30 3 30 p m. CBS Sports Spectacular 2 30 4 4 p m Sunday. NBC Windfall 10 11 p m Sunday. CBS Tour of the White House repeat 4 5 p m. Ben Casey ABC 10 11 p m Monday features A Cardinal Act of Mercy with Kim Hunter.
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New York
Sid Caesar
Bob Hope
Caesar
ABC
Hope
NBC
Arnold Palmer
Gary Player
Jack Nicklaus
Phil Rogers
Los Angeles
CBS
Roger O. Hirson
Eddie Albert
Glyn
Johns
White House
Ben Casey
Kim Hunter
NASA shifts aims from Venus to Mars after Mariner 2 success
NASA revised its interplanetary plan dropping another Venus shot and ordering a Mars flight following the successful Mariner 2 pass of Venus at 21 594 miles on December 14. The agency cited the mission’s achievement and a recent Soviet Mars probe as influencing factors.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Venus
Mars
Soviet
Russia
NASA
Space Agency
Mariner
Vermonters Suspected in Seniors Missing Social Security Check
North Adams police seek three Vermont visitors after 83 year old Exire La Casse reported two women and a man in his home Sunday night. A $90 Social Security check was later missing from the desk after one woman asked to use the phone. Neighbors saw a Vermont-licensed car outside.
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North Adams
Mass
Exire la Casse
Bennington
la Casse
Vermont
Carpenter Helps Debbie Reynolds In Her First Book
Carleton Carpenter appears in Debbie Reynolds book If I Knew Then written with Bob Thomas. The chapter shows eight full page photos of Carp and Reynolds with Do’s and Don’ts. Proceeds go to charity. Bernard Geis Associates published it and Random House distributes.
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Carleton Carpenter
Bennington
Film Capital
Debbie Reynolds
Bob Thomas
Associated Press Hollywood
Banner
Debbie
Bernard
Broadway
Carp
Newspaper seller foils holdup in St. Louis deli
Mrs. Gertrude Messmer a 50 year old deli owner selling papers in St. Louis defied a gunman when a neighbor boy entered asking for a paper. The distraction let her dash outside to summon aid and the assailant fled the scene.
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Messmer
Kennedy ends background briefings amid press rules shakeup
The White House signals the end of background briefings after breaches of rules when Kennedy spoke at Palm Beach New Year’s Eve to 35 reporters. British papers quoted him directly, prompting a push toward on the record exchanges and possible small news conferences or televised chats with international interviewers.
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Washington
Washington Institution
Kennedy
White House
Palm Beach
Fla
Britain
Success Secret Great Love Guided Parents Of 11 Youths
Mrs. Richard T. Seidel and her family were named the National Catholic Family of 1962 for showing harmony and love in raising 11 children. Two sons are priests, two daughters are nuns, and the family will receive a plaque at Visitation Church in St Paul with Archbishop Leo Binz presenting.
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Minneapolis
Richard T. Seidel
John J. Seidel
St. Peter Canisius Church
Chicago
Thomas E. Seidel
Holy Cross
Notre Dame High School
Mary Gabriel
Catherine
Benedictine Priory
St. Paul
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Visitation Church
Leo Binz
Seidel
To Market To Market
In Poplar Bluff Missouri housewives shop for meat at Clyde Pigg and Jim Hogg markets as UPI reports on local grocery buying habits.
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Poplar Bluff
UPI
Clyde Pigg’s
Jim Hogg
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