Leonard Lyons Gossip Roundup From New York to Hollywood
Leonard Lyons reports on Mrs. Jack Lemmon preferring trains to planes but booking a flight to California for a film project. The column covers LBJ associate Sam Houston Johnson’s hospital stay, Mae West interviewing USC and UCLA students, Katharine Hepburn’s Coco Chanel meeting, Pearl Buck’s Christmas story, Broadway-bound collaborations, and other bright-named showbiz tidbits with a civic and literary touch.
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New York
Jack Lemmon
California
Paris
Lemmon
Mrs. Lemmon
LBJ
USC
UCLA
Macdougal Street
Jane Froman returns to a Veterans hospital visit
Jane Froman, famed 1940s singer, visits a Kansas City veterans hospital room where 45 patients greet her and recall past performances in Europe. She describes her 1943 Lisbon plane crash and 30 operations to walk again, recounts WW II troop shows, and notes a long pause before singing during hospital rounds.
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Jane Froman
Harold Welty
Veterans Hospital
Kansas City
Jane
Tom
Weisbaden
Japan
Susan Hayward
Miss Froman
Tagus River
Lisbon
Portugal
Europe
Iowa Stations Qualify for CPB Support Under New Criteria
New York report notes three Iowa stations WSUI AM WOI AM and WOI FM in Ames have qualified for Corporation for Public Broadcasting support under newly established standards. The CPB says seventy three stations nationwide meet the revised criteria among over four hundred noncommercial AM and FM outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Iowa
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Wsui-Am
WOIAM
Woi-Fm
Ames
United States
Gilligan's Island double castaways on Channel 9
The islands crew faces a two castaway episode at 6 PM Thursday in color on Channel 9. Gilligan's Island airs this week with a special twist adding another stranded character to the ensemble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilligan’s Island
Channel 9
Lights for Unity call to burn lights nationwide
Bob Hope urged Americans from all sides to leave lights on Friday through Sunday as a symbol of national unity. As honorary chairman, he linked unity to an honorable end to the Vietnam War and said astronauts en route to the lunar landing could see the display across the country.
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Irving Wallace
House
Subcommittee
Allied Artists
James Earl Jones
Stacy Keach
Joe DiMaggio
Vietnam
Ron Swoboda
Milt Pappas
Mudcat Grant
Hollywood
UPI
Bob Hope
Committee For the Week of National Unity
Hope
United States
Movie Boycott Calls Stars to One-Day Action
Six stars including Paul Newman Peter Fonda Alan Arkin Dennis Hopper Arlo Guthrie and Jon Voight urged a one day boycott of their films Friday calling it an act of conscience against the Vietnam War A theater owners spokesman joined reps Lowenstein and Edwards at a news conference calling the plea selfish and unmakeable for the industry to recover losses
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Washington
Paul Newman
Peter Fonda
Alan Arkin
Dennis Hopper
Arlo Guthrie
Jon Voight
Butch Cassidy
Alice’s
Easy Rider
Allard K. Lowenstein
D-N.y
Don Edwards
D-Calif
Hayden Convicted of Draft Evasion in Los Angeles
Los Angeles federal jury convicts 21 year old Christian Winslow Hayden, son of actor Sterling Hayden, on two counts of draft law violations for failing to report for a physical examination on March 6 and for induction on May 6. Sentencing set for December 15, with each count carrying up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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Los Angeles
Christian Winslow Hayden
Sterling Hayden
Young Hayden
Manuel Real
Roz Russell Hit by Floating Log on Film Set
Hollywood AP reports Rosalind Russell, 56, was struck on the head by a six foot log while swimming in an eight foot deep tank during filming The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax. The log slipped from the water after she pushed away. She left the scene for about an hour then returned to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Rosalind Russell
United Artists ‘Studio
Miss Russell
Mrs. Pollifax
Tony Curtis Opens Free Stop Smoking Clinics Nationwide
Actor Tony Curtis announces that the American Cancer Society will establish free stop smoking clinics across the United States. Curtis leads the societies IQ Club and says volunteers and a physician will run group therapy sessions, citing his father's death from lung cancer as background.
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Los Angeles
Tony Curtis
American Cancer Society
Curtis
Los Angeles County
ACS
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