Spoon River on CBS TV Delivers Poignant Stage Magic
CBS TV aired Spoon River in a trimmed hour with strong acting by Charles Aldman Jason Robards Jennifer West and Joyce Van Patten. Naomi Hirshhorn Hal Lynch provided folk songs under Aidman who adapted directed and produced the version. The live theater feel and ensemble performances lent a rare Americana mood with haunting Going Home delivery.
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Hingis
Charles Aldman
Jason Robards
Jennifer West
Joyce van Patten
Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn
Hal Lynch
CBSTV
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Aidman
Miss van Patten
Theater West Workshop
Los Angeles
Broadway
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Miss West
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Boy Mauled by Wolves at Bronx Zoo Exhibit
Leonard Smith, 12, climbed into a timber wolf enclosure at a Bronx zoo exhibit called Wolf Wood and was mauled, suffering bites to the arm, leg, back and chest. He escaped and was taken to Fordham Hospital in good condition, with doctors ruling out rabies in the wolves.
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UPI
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Leonard
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Dair
O Fordham
Wolf Wood
Charles Gandal
Gandal
Board of Health
Road Bill Back To Committee
Iowa Senate spends two hours on a road financing bill returning it to appropriations and triggering forecasts of impacts on superhighways and economic development. Senators Hougen Messerly Gau dineer discuss prospects as 32 25 vote sends measure back to committee.
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UPI
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State Highway Commission
Town Senate
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Chester Hougen
Cedar Falls
Senate Appropriations Committee
Hougen
Iowa
Francis Messerly
Rle
Idar Falls
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Lee Gaudineer
Beatrice Foods Posts All-Division Sales and Earnings Highs
Beatrice Foods Co reports all seven divisions showing advances as sales reach 1.303 billion dollars for the year ended February 28 1989. Net income climbs to 43.67 million with earnings per share at 1.89, restated for prior adjustments. Stockholders meet June 4 at Sheraton Chicago.
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Beatrice Foods Co
William G. Karnes
Beatrice
Cedar Rapids
Karnes
Sheraton-Chicago
Rain Drags on as Iowa Plowing Halts
Rain and wet fields slowed Iowa fieldwork last week with only about a day and a half suitable for plowing. Moisture surplus stood around 70 percent per weather reports. In Calcutta AP notes a plane crash over East Pakistan killed 44 aboard after a thunderstorm.
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Weather Bureau
Calcutta
Pakistan
Halt German Ship Mutiny
The U S coast guard said a ten man boarding party boarded the West German freighter Helga Witt near San Juan Puerto Rico and restrained five mutinous crew members without bloodshed. Captain Warner Thompson reported no injuries after the daylong confrontation aboard the 3118 ton ship about 120 miles southwest of San Juan as the cutter Courageous arrived after 6 p m.
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P.R
Coast Guard
Helga Witt
Warner Thompson
Courageous
Three Years For Cookies Theft In Detroit Case
Fred Jackson convicted of breaking into a store and stealing five boxes of cookies. He received two years and five months more on top of a prior 13 months already served, with a minimum sentence of three and a half years in state prison. Judge Samuel Olsen credited his waiting time and noted the crime was breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny.
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Jrars
Fred Jackson
Jackson
Detroit Recorder's Court
Samuel Olsen
Olsen
Powell Urges National Youth Conference Led by Bond and Kennedy
Princeton AP report: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell calls for a national conference of young whites and Negroes led by Julian Bond and Sen. Edward Kennedy to save the Republic. He urges cooperation with black militants and backs a 5 percent retirement boost for judges, tying it to last November’s election trauma.
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Adam Clayton Powell
Dn.y
Julian Bond
Atlanta
Edward M. Kennedy
Mass
Republic
Powell
Harlem
Princeton University
L ‘Ne DU
Stephens
Sen
Kennedy
Bond
David Stanley
Muscatine
Unit Approves Judge Benefits Increase Bill
The Iowa Senate Appropriations Committee approved a measure to raise retirement benefits for judges, boosting Supreme Court and district court pensions and adding a required funding contribution if finances falter. Critics warned the amendment could push costs to younger judges and endanger tenure.
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Richard Stephens
Crawfordsville
Stephens
Lee Gaudineer
Gaudineer
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