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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1962
Page
21
A rural Virginia school teacher mails a letter to a state agency in Richmond and receives a huge wooden crate with Egyptian artifacts from a bygone era. A tractor trailer follows.
The review notes Pearl Buck's autobiographical work covering a return to Japan during the filming of The Big Wave and the loss of her husband after seven years of illness. It traces changes in Japanese life, especially for women, and sees the book as a cushion amid personal tragedy. It also surveys Virginia's state funded Fine Arts program and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, its funding, reach, and innovations.
Popcorn tycoon Jim Blevins named The Parent Trap as the year s most munchable film. Hayley Mills and Maureen O Hara will receive bronze statues and their weight in popcorn.
In Buenos Aires AP reports the two songs aired by the government television before Jose Maria Guido's oath include I Got Plenty o Nuttin and Were Going to Make a Big Deal. The broadcasts mark the transition to the new Argentine president amid political shifts.
Three husband wife teams take part in producing Great Day in the Morning on Broadway. J D Cannon, husband of Alice Cannon, joins the cast while Colleen Dewhurst plays the lead with her husband George C Scott as coproducer. Thomas Carlin and Frances Sternhagen also appear in two other roles.
A Mansfield Industries display in Chicago unveiled a compact Syntronic Sound Striper that adds magnetic sound to 8mm reels at about half a cent per foot. The self contained unit, under $40, dries film as it applies a 1 mil stripe up to 400 feet in 15 minutes. A playback only unit under $100 and a projector with recording capacity under $200 were shown as part of expanding home sound for films.
This condensed listing shows hardcover fiction and non fiction best sellers with rankings in parentheses. Titles include Franny and Zooey The Agony and the Ecstasy A Prologue to Love The Bull from the Sea The Fox in the Attic My Life in Court Calories Don’t Count The Making of the President 1960 The Guns of August The Rothschilds.
Hollywood AP reports actor George Peppard recalls writing a fan letter while at Carnegie Tech after seeing Treasure Of The Sierra Madre. He learned Walter Huston had died three months earlier, and the post office returned the letter.
New York AP profile of Herb Gardner, a 27 year old Broadway hopeful whose first stage play A Thousand Clowns opens at the O'Neill. The story traces his route from Brooklyn youth to cartoon creator The Nebbishes to TV scripts and novels, noting his breakthrough prize and literary path.
In Hialeah Florida an AP report notes a resurgence of circuses under canvas with many traveling shows, including Beers Barnes Circus a family enterprise active since 1933. Roger Barnes and son in law Walter Davis organize tents props and acts while Charlie Beers handles finances and animals and Mrs Barnes plays the organ.
A list of recent paperback titles includes To Kill a Mockingbird Dear and Glorious Physician The Snake Has All the Lines PT 109 J F Kennedy The Carpetbaggers Fate Is the Hunter Tender Is the Night The Land and the Promise The Tight White Collar John F Kennedy War Hero and Tregaskis.
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