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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1968
Page
14
Jean Kennedy Smith, lured to a surprise party, met Albert Finney for lunch at the 21 Club a day after the party. Finney agreed to the meet only if he could avoid emerging nude from a birthday cake.
Public and private bodies plan hearings to gauge minority employment in advertising radio television stage and film. The New York City and state human rights commissions will hold hearings next month across multiple cities with support from the United Church of Christ funded by a Ford Foundation grant to monitor Southern radio stations.
State and city officials cite mounting evidence of discrimination in communications. They say Negroes and other minorities are chiefly hired into unskilled and semi skilled roles in the advertising industry.
Showings at Paramount IOWA WORLD PLAZA MARION and Collins Drive-In include titles The Bible Bonnie and Clyde Ballad of Josie The Happiest Millionaire To Sir with Love Pink Panther A Shot in the Dark with multiple daily start times and shorts programs where listed.
Open tryouts for Raisin in the Sun will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Cedar Rapids Community Theater 1124 Third Street SE. The Lorraine Hansberry drama will replace Othello as the season’s fourth major production and opens Friday April 12.
Universal buys Elizabeth Ann Cooper novel No Little Thing winner of the Catholic Book prize. The Ross Hunter production will adapt the modern drama featuring a priest as its central character.
In New Delhi, George Harrison marked his 22nd birthday at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's hermitage in the Himalayan foothills. He wore Indian attire and joined 68 foreign disciples for songs and a seven pound cake as Patty Harrison accompanied him. The Maharishi blessed him with sandal paste and a symbolic globe message.
Dr Joel L Pressman head and neck surgery chief at UCLA Medical School died of cancer at 67 in Los Angeles. He married actress Claudette Colbert on Christmas Eve 1935. Funeral services set for Wednesday.
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