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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1971
Page
3
Frank Sinatra, winner of the 1953 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for From Here To Eternity, says he is permanently retiring from show business at the Academy Awards. He plans a quiet Palm Springs life, writing stories about music, and doubts he will write an autobiography.
The ceremony featured Lillian Gish praised for lifelong service to acting with a standing ovation, Melvyn Douglas calling her the youngest spirit in theater. Frank Sinatra received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for philanthropic work including a Palm Springs hospital.
Cynthia Lowry reports the NBC telecast paced poorly over six of 22 awards with long waits for winners. Viewers amused by backstage fashion and a Bob Hope monologue, while tributes to Beatles, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman and Frank Sinatra highlighted the program.
London flurry as Glenda Jackson, 34, learns she has won the Academy Award for best film actress. Her husband Ray Doges brought the news after a 6 o'clock broadcast while she remained in bed at their Blackheath home in London. Jackson had just returned from a Cyprus holiday.
Dayton Ohio AP reports Jefferson Township Junior High will reopen Monday after disturbances linked to protests over rumored firings of black teachers. Superintendent Herman Brown says the list of teachers not to be rehired will be submitted to the school board on April 21.
Police brief names Garth Stokley of Stokley Construction Co reporting vandals broke windshields of two trucks and damaged a third window at a Verity Parkway and Eldora Drive site.
Items reported taken include a tachometer a tape player and a wheel and tire from Steve Alexander s car and a tachometer from David Pennington s car at the Pollock Paper Co lot on Plum Street.
Stanley Colewell of College Corner Middletown High lot Martin Carr Jr of 7594 Finch Ct Franklin Barnitz Stadium Cheryl Gothast of 3121 Elman Ct Middletown Hospital lot of Elman Court William Coleman of 705 Wilson St report losses from cars in multiple local lots.
Channel lineup shows high drama on The High Chaparral and The Brady Bunch with family capers sprinkled between The Interns Nanny paranormal inquiry Name of the Game Partridge Family and Andy Griffith amid odd couple remedies. National Polling Day asks about housing inflation and consumer worries.
A compact catalog of film entries listing Powder keg and Dead Ringer with associated chapter or chapter numbers and performer credits Rod Taylor Karl Malden John Derek and Dan Duryea across years 1971 1964 1958 and 1948.
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