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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1968
Page
1
Nielsen data show pre emptions from political broadcasts football and specials are altering prime time rankings. The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show rose after Mission Impossible was pre empted and NBC interrupted for Kennedy Onassis wedding footage while other shows faded or climbed due to regional political broadcasts.
Los Angeles AP reports actor Lance Fuller, 32, was critically wounded when a police officer shot him during an attack with a three foot iron pipe. Officer Thomas Blaire, who was treated for a broken hand, said Fuller assaulted him and yelled I am Jesus Christ I am God as he struck parked cars. Fuller acted in 1950s films including Frontier Secret of Treasure Mountain Kentucky Rifle and Gods Little Acre.
Hollywood star Virginia Bruce aged 58 is reported seriously ill at Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills. A hospital spokesman declined to describe the illness while her former husband Ali Ipar reportedly flies to her bedside. Bruce starred in The Ziegfeld Follies and films including Parade on Parade and Flight Angels.
Pert Kelton, original Alice Kramden and later Grandma in Greenwillow, died at 61 in Ridgewood New Jersey. Born in Great Falls Montana she began on stage in the 1920s and appeared in Broadway shows The Music Man Bed of Roses The Honeymooners and Come Blow Your Horn. She suffered an apparent stroke while swimming at the YWCA pool.
New York social notes cover Pat Lawford at Shor’s aboard promoting an Andy Williams RFK Fund record. King Peter of Yugoslavia uses a double name at Gotham. Pleasence records radio ads for Man in the Glass Booth. Lansbury learns a dance from Saddler. Zsa Zsa Gabor at 21 Club after Budapest trip. Novak in Salvation Army uniform for The Great Bank Robbery. Poll signs Bergman and Fellini to direct Love Duet. Coquiline to open Le Drug Store on RKO site with all night eatery. Wilder comments on Hello Dolly! and Yonkers. OPC preface note. Fontaine urges Addams to board. Goodman records concertos. Shawone-man tours by Fletcher and Adrian.
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