Memorial Day Indy 500 deaths spark live TV debate
Television critics question live coverage of dangerous sports after the Indy 500 fatalities of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald. The incident echoes boxing’s Paret tragedy and raises concerns over network safety in live broadcasts and the shifting closer ties between sports and television. An Andy Griffith night club story illustrates how viewers recall stars’ stage origins.
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Hollywood
Eddie Sachs
Dave MacDonald
Benny
Kid) Paret
Television Schedule Highlights for WEFM Channel
Local guide lists daily programs from Baby Time to Tonight Show across NBC and独 affiliates. Notable entries include Jeopardy, Truth or Consequences, Dr Kildare, Kraft Theater, and Huntley Brinkley with News and Weather segments.
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NBC News
Peter Gunn
WFRBM
Cc News
the Doctors
Virginian
Ion
Billy Graf
Rise of television stars reshapes on screen success
The article traces how many TV figures emerged from second leads or robust supporting roles rather than top billed film stars. It notes Danny Kaye Fred MacMurray Shirley Booth and Lucille Ball as examples and cites Jackie Gleason Phil Silvers Milton Berle Red Skelton Jack Benny Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as radio and club circuit veterans who later defined TV.
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Fred MacMurray
Shirley Booth
Jackie Gleason
Phil Silvers
Milton Berle
Broadway
Lucille Ball
Red Skelton
Jack Benny
Ozzie and
Harriet Nelson
Martinsville Girl Paroled From Parc One Trucker News
Terre Haute operator of a truck fleet under contract to S and G Excavating Corp reports Pittenger’s truck overturned and burned. The driver crawled to safety despite critical injuries as four fire units responded, including one from the prison.
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S and G Excavating Corp
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Minister Eugene Whelan to Lead Olive Branch Church
Eugene Whelan will begin ministry at Olive Branch Baptist church north of Linton on Sunday with his wife Betty and children Ronald Eugene Kathleen Sarah and Timothy David moving into the parsonage. He trained at Missouri two years college and earned a BA from Tennessee Temple 1959 followed by a BD from Temple Baptist Seminary 1963. He comes from Rockport First Baptist and previously led Tunnel Hill Baptist chapel in Georgia. Canada adopts lacrosse as national game by legislative act.
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Olive Branch Baptist Church
Linton
Betty June Starr Whelan
Ronald Eugene
Kathleen Sarah
Timothy David
Whelan
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Chattanooga
Tenon
Tennesee Temple
Temple Baptist Theological Seminary
Olive Branch
First Baptist Church
Rockport
Tunnel Hill Baptist Chapel
Tunnel Hill
Festival of Song by Methodist choirs planned at church
The First Methodist Church choirs will unite for a Festival of Song at 7 30 p m Sunday. A 15 minute prelude by Mrs Roy Borders and Miss Mary M Barnes opens the program. The event features three sections Sing Joyfully Pray Earnestly Live Faithfully with 55 voices in children's youth and adult choirs and a trumpet trio. Proceeds benefit Lebanon Children's Home. Rev W T Murphy invites the public.
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Mary M. Barnes
Don Spice
Bert Barnes
Larry Voisin
Kyle Butler
Jesse Corbin
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Lebanon
W. T. Murphy
Chiorgs
Ancil Jewell, Linton Coal Miner, Dies After Illness
Ancil Jewell of Linton died at 10 20 p m Monday in Evansville after five years of declining health and four days of critical illness. Born April 20 1888 in Greene county, he moved to Linton in 1916 from Midland and was a retired coal miner. Survived by widow Iva Jewell of Linton a brother Edgar Jewell of Indianapolis and a sister Myrtle Harp of Linton. Body at Anderson Poindexter Memory Chapel with viewing after 7 p m today funeral Thursday at 10 a m with Eugene Pound officiating burial in Lebanon cemetery.
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Greene County
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Midland
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Anderson Poindexter Memory Chapel
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Eugene Pound
Lebanon Cemetery
Program Planned at Saron U C C Birthday Supper
Rev. Boyd Stepler pastor of Saron United Church of Christ will show Europe trip photos at birthday supper program at Evangelical United Brethren Church. The event begins at 6 p m Thursday at the church.
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Saron
High Lights
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Television listings May air Wednesday primetime
CBS airs Once Upon a Mattress a 90 minute musical comedy special based on The Princess and the Pea. Also In Defense of Rome Faces roots of freedom with James Mason Eric Sevareid. Suspense features The Leader with Basil Rathbone. Farmer's Daughter and Espionage return with Munich backdrop. Meredith Wilson Special opens summer musical line with Caterina Valente Sergio Franchi The Young Americans. Rawhide follows an Indian chief plot and Perry Mason closes with a scandal.
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Rome
James Mason
Bill Travers
Eric Sevareid
Basil Rathbone
Meredith Wilson
Rini
Caterina Valente
Sergio Franchi
Rawhide
Perry Mason
TV Schedule Fragments Include Endowment Threat and Theatres
NBC airs Hazel at 9 and A Unusual Night at 9 30 with a spinster turned bachelor lead. Ronald Reagan stars in a jurist portrayal on an NBC schedule fragment while ABC News and suspense programming fill later slots.
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Hazel
Ronald Reagan
ABC News
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