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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1981
Page
4
White House press secretary James Brady remained in good condition after nearly three hours of surgery to repair a leak of spinal fluid from his bullet damaged brain. Doctors described him as awake and coher ent and chattering away with stable vital signs.
James Garner was thrown from a mechanical horse during filming the opening episode of Bret Maverick. He cracked several ribs and is expected to be hospitalized three days and unable to work for about two weeks, per a spokesman.
Farmer Ivan Bright of Hope Arkansas says his first 100 pound melon will be sent to Paul Newman as a publicity stunt tied to Hope's Watermelon Festival. Newman will get one of Hope's prize melons this fall after his claimed love of eating watermelon in the shower. Bright's 200 pound melon from 1979 is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
A federal appeals court affirmed contempt convictions of lawyer William Kunstler and defendants Abbie Hoffman Jerry Rubin and David Dellinger in the 1969 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. The 7th U.S. Circuit rejected their bid to overturn the contempt rulings.
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