Pageant host Joan Engh Gillette to narrate June 26 event
Joan Mary Engh Gillette, Miss Wisconsin 1962, will host the state pageant in Oshkosh on June 26. She and Lester Sturmer will describe the event on Ch. 8 La Crosse at 9 p.m. Nancy Zinn will represent La Crosse. Station coverage includes WISC Madison WISN Milwaukee WBAY Green Bay and WSAU Wausau.
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Rolling Stones Concert Ends With Fainting Fans and Jail
In Glasgow Scotland an AP report says the Rolling Stones performance ended with 25 girls unconscious inside the hall and 50 boys jailed after mob scenes outside.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Actress Joi Lansing shifts from bikini to stage gowns
Hollywood star Joi Lansing, famed for her bikini role as Dean Martin's secretary in Marriage on the Rocks, now pursues a nightclub singing career in modest high neck gowns. She says she wants audiences to focus on her voice.
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Hollywood
Joi Lansing
Dean Martin
Warner Bros
La Crosse Woman Nancy Rae Zinn Heads To Miss Wisconsin Contest
Nancy Rae Zinn of La Crosse travels to Oshkosh on June 22 to compete for Miss Wisconsin honors and a chance to enter Miss America in Atlantic City. She holds multiple titles and is sponsored by local groups including the La Crosse Jaycees and Pepsi Cola, with wardrobe from J C Penney.
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Oshkosh
Atlantic City
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Pepsi Cola Company
J. C. Penney
Barbara Best
Thomas Neuwerth
Jaycee
Kennard Buick Company
Work For All Business Booms During Doctor Zhivago Shoot
Film extras see strong demand as over 3500 workers were employed in a Madrid shoot for MGM's Doctor Zhivago amid a sequence depicting revolutionary rioting during the production of a multi million dollar epic.
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MGM
Madrid
Paul Ford Gets Full Minute Of Film Footage
Paul Ford will have a full minute on screen in a close-up with no dialogue in the film Never Too Late. The sequence is noted as one of the longest such takes in recent motion picture history, showing Ford’s stunned reaction to Miss O'Sullivan's announcement of pregnancy despite being middle aged.
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Miss O’sullivan
Gassman Plans Broadway Run For The Heroes Drama Series
Vittorio Gassman will stage a Broadway season featuring a dramatic series titled The Heroes. Most scenes will be in Italian with an American actor to summarize each segment for audiences.
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New York
Vittorio Gassman
La Crosse Jaycees Plan Bus to Oshkosh Pageant
The La Crosse Jaycees may charter a bus to the Oshkosh Miss Wisconsin Pageant on June 26. The round trip costs 8.50 and includes a 9 p.m. pageant ticket at the Oshkosh Civic Auditorium. Bus departs 1 p.m. from the Chamber of Commerce Building. deadline to apply is June 23.
Inside Daisy Clover Stars Natalie Wood at 15
Natalie Wood recalls childhood acting with Warne Bros in the Pakula Mulligan film Inside Daisy Clover where studio makeup included long false eyelashes and views through Venetian blinds as she played a teenage Hollywood star.
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Hollywood
Natalie Wood
MGM Forms Verve Folkways Label For Folk Acts In July
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer creates Verve Folkways to diversify into folk music. Artists like Pete Seeger The New Lost City Ramblers Woody Guthrie and Dave Van Ronk have albums slated for release in July.
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Verve Folkways
Pete Seeger
New Lost City Ramblers
Woody Guthrie
Dave von Ronk
Maggie Meanders Through Local Scenic Spot Mentioned
A reader writes from La Crosse County praising a local nature area along County Trunk NN with wild strawberries violets trillium and lady slippers describing it as a largely preserved paradise. The note also mentions a 30 page Iowa County Tourist Guide from Margo Scott and nostalgic recollections of local flora and dress-up play.
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Margo Scott
G. D. Scotts
S. 30Th St
Mineral Point Democrat Tribune
Iowa County
Latin Lover Rosano Brazzi to Stay Typecast in Films
Hollywood reports Rosano Brazzi, now investing earnings in a Rome studio, will keep his Latin lover persona on demand. He stars with Maureen O'Hara in Warner Bros.' The Battle of the Getting accustomed to store windows full of new finery for summer wear. Ray Sharan of WKBH WKBT announces autumn color lineups including Danny Kaye Red Skelton Lassie My Favorite Martian Lucy Show Beverly Hillbillies Gilligan's Island Hogan's Heroes and more. The Rivoli Theater may show Mary Poppins outside later this summer while Doris Day stars in Glass Bottom Boat.
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Ray Sharan
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WKBT
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Iowa Drum and Bugle Corps
Cedar Rapids
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