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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1962
Page
6
NBCs The Tunnel portrayed the Berlin escape via a three foot square tunnel with real refugees and volunteers. Faces were blurred and backs shown while diggers worked. The program captured stark, gripping realities and the peril faced by those seeking freedom despite a cautious reconstruction.
The listing shows a dense daily TV schedule with programs and times from 4:00 to 1:00, including Life of Riley, Torey and Friends, Turban's Land of Magic, Discovery '62, Bugs Bunny, Sea Hunt, Yogi Bear, Dragnet, Mickey Mouse Club, Hawaiian Eye, Red Skelton, Untouchables, Jack Benny, Steve Allen, Lifeline, and more with news weather and movie segments interspersed. It reflects a mid century daily broadcast grid with multiple channels and varied genres across daytime and late night slots.
Local notes record visits by residents to relatives, hospital stays of Virgil Ellis and Arch Bedford, a wedding attended by Maurice DeBoever, church site planning, a gift toward site purchase, and volunteers aiding the Baptist Church interior. Also listed are radio and TV schedules and community remarks.
Sgt Saunders leads an infiltrating mission to contact a French underground worker holding enemy movement keys. A German doctor is captured to operate on a wounded ally, with fear of botched surgery. The evening also features Rosemary Clooney and Will Jordan in a flea tale, Miss Clooney in two numbers, Red’s courthouse skit, a rancher romance, and a high wind storm complicating a budding romance and crop dusting.
A Hollywood benefit features the wives of Milton Berle Kirk Douglas Groucho Marx and Phil Silvers as referees in a playful wrestling match. Dick Powell Ed Begley star in a tense court martial drama about a hero accused of killing a scientist defecting to the Reds. A documentary on San Francisco precinct volunteers surveys campaign work ahead of the November elections. Later a 10 15 Channel 5 airing includes Vacation from Marriage and classic English films International Counterfeiters Wine Women and Horses.
A dense list of crossword clues across and down with many misspellings and broken words. It includes entries like Swedish coin, record proceedings, marry, old French, knock, thespian, pepper shrub, river island, final card game, and many others, suggesting a puzzle page with incomplete OCR text.
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