Roots of Freedom proves TV can be educational entertainment
CBS premieres Roots of Freedom with Alfred Lunt guiding viewers through Greek theater origins. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Sophocles Antigone and Aristophanes Lysistrata are staged on Dionysian ruins with Fontanne Drake Madden. The hour aims to entertain while teaching theater history.
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New York
CBS
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Dionysus
Miss Fontanne
Alfred Drake
Donald Madden
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Antigone
Television Schedule Snapshot From Late 1960s Era
Readable fragments show a dense grid of programs across days with names like Wild Kingdom Rocky and Friends Rifleman Perry Mason Twilight Zone McHale's Navy Captain Kangaroo Say When Father Knows Best The Price is Right and more. The list includes news weather and sports blocks with many time points and channel numbers.
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Donna_ Reed
Flaherty
Sweden
McHale's Navy
Kremlinology
Nurses
Steve Allen
Johnnny Carson
Sunset Strip
Pioneers
Daily Word
Lee Phillip
lMd
Pete and
Gladys
Irnie Ford
News (Ltd
Guiding Eight
General Hospital
Farm Report
Bette Hayes
News Sun
Danny ‘Thomas
Furey and
Phienda
Sea Hunt
Mickey Mouse Club
Natie and the Captain
News
Cheyenne
Billy Graham
Writers of Today
Alfred Flitchcock
Jack Paar
Hilly Graham
Johnny Carson
Alfred Hitchock
Faith For Our Times
Better Half Across and Down Word Puzzle Challenge
This word puzzle lists across and down clues covering food, nature, people, and abstract ideas. Readers fill in British and global terms, with references to celestial, linguistic, and regional terms. A challenging grid mixes languages, abbreviations, and varied clue types.
Vinland News in Brief on Local Residents and Travels
Des Moines newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jacques visit relatives with Mrs. Jacques’ Des Moines family, while Susan Kay Stone plans KU attendance this fall. York College-bound Linda Schmidt accompanies parents to York Nebraska dorms. Mary Sturdy returns from Creston with Devaults and tours Millegeville and Pallisade Park. Roy Snowbarger and daughter Miriam visit Nebraska. Schellenbergs stop by Vinland. Kathy Sturdy visits grandparents in Lawrence. Laughlins relocate to Eu dora. Hadi family relocates to Oklahoma. Mrs. Stone travels to Kansas City and New York bound Europe trip planned for Latimer.
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Gary Jacques
Des Moines
Iowa
Ross Stone
Jacques
Walter Babbit
Manhattan
Susan Kay Stone
Lawrence
St. Louis
Kansas City
Hattisburg
Miss
Linda Schmidt
York Christian College
York
Neb
Warren Schmidt
Mary Sturdy
Creston
C. O. Devault
Lowell Richardson
Porteous Latimer
Alden
TV Preview Soul in Third Showing of Printer's Devil
TV preview notes a third showing of Printer's Devil and lists Channel 9 airing My Three Sons at 8:30 as part of the schedule.
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Three Sons
Eddie Walker and Tommy Finch plan summer jobs cross Atlantic
Eddie Walker and Tommy Finch plot to hire their sons for summer work on both sides of the Atlantic, triggering a counter plot by the boys. Channel listings follow with Big Eight football talk by Dan Devine and Jack Mitchell, Perry Mason reruns, The Nurses crime drama, and classic films with cast lists and air times.
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Eddie Walker
Eddie Foy Jr
Tommy Finch
Victor Maddern
Atlantic
Dan Devine
Jack Mitchell
Perry Mason
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Irma
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Beetle Bailey
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Mutt
Jeff Quick
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Vinland
Tena Schellenberg
Newton
M. E
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Woodrow Sturdy
A. V. Phillips
W. S.h
Oak Free
Paul Ford
TV Today
Fair Exchange
Perry
Raymond Burr
Donna Reed
Donna
Carl Betz
Trisha
Patty Petersen
Carolyn Jones
Burgess Meredith
Robert Sterling
Robbie
Brig
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Mel Torme
Charlie Byrd
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