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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1962
Page
3
Hollywood columnist Erskine Johnson reports on George Gobel pondering new TV ideas. Gobel recalls elevator starter, surfer, and men’s store clerk concepts and notes past pilots and Broadway tryouts while seeking a return to television success.
Charles Jonas of Cedar Rapids has been elected chancellor of the Delta Sigma Pi professional business fraternity at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. The selection marks a leadership step for the campus organization and highlights Jonas’s role within the fraternity.
Paramount shows George Raft Story with multiple screenings including a 1:10 3:10 and 5:15 plus shorts at 1 2:55 and 4:50. Friday matinee Swingin Along at 1:30 3:35 5:45 with shorts at 1 2:30 and 5.
Jersey Joe Walcott, former heavyweight champion, now acts in Cain's Hundred after The Harder They Fall with Humphrey Bogart. He works with the Camden police on crime prevention, visiting schools, organizing clubs, and supervising youths in custody when needed. He says boxing is in a slump but will rebound with a few good boxers. He lives with six grandchildren and has investments in hotels and car washes.
Louvella Parsons reports Twentieth Century Fox plans The Unsinkable Molly Brown as a film before Broadway, with Tammy Grimes starring and Marilyn Monroe linked to the Grimes role. Peter Levanthes confirms Fox interest, while Kreuger’s Saint Patrick’s Battalion adapts his award winning novel into a major movie project. Peggy Lee missed the event, Stuart Whitman eyes lead as Michael Fitz Gerald, Earl of Desmond, and Jerry Lewis opens a lavish restaurant project with $750000 spent on décor and dining.
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