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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1968
Page
9
A TV log lists programs and hosts including Desd Star Trek segments Gomer Pyle USMC Man in a Suitcase Capstone Concert All Mine to Give UGS Net Jazz Impossible Movie To Be Announced 8:30 Porter Wagoner Guns of Will Sonnett NBCNe Bill Anderson Viva Apes Joey Bishop as Pa
Ethel Kennedy quietly attended Andy Williams Westbury Music Fair opening with Secret Service protection. The widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy sat in the fourth row, unseen by autograph hounds, while management kept details private.
Hollywood AP report on Robert Conrad recovering from a 1968 on set skull fracture while filming Wild Wild West. Conrad trains daily, back to full health as the series continues into its fourth season. The piece notes network concern over violence and describes set gym, stunt history, and future ambitions.
East Pakistan authorities asked the Indian Border Security Force to quiet noisy students at a Kailasahar school named across the border in India. The Sylhet district magistrate reported the request to the BSF.
Tonight at 6 00 P M a nuclear scientist is sent to Peru with an archeologist to seek atomic by products then at 7 30 P M McGill is the chief suspect in a murder in 648 Man in a Suitcase. NBC News Special at 9 00 P M discusses Americas state hosted by Edwin Newman. The 10 P M Western Star theater features The Unshakable Man and films All Mine to Give Viva Zapata and Susan Slept Here with a mix of drama biography and comedy.
Thomas Alva Edison, famed for the electric light bulb, is recorded as holding roughly 1,097 patents.
AP reports a new ABC series That's Life by Marvin Marx will mix situation and musical comedy. The plot follows courtship to marriage to suburbia with three original songs per show and guest stars like Shelley Berman and Sid Caesar. Robert Morse stars as the husband. Edna Jeanney Peaker as the wife. Marx hopes ongoing characters and story arcs sustain weekly entertainment. Gleason offers support.
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