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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1972
Page
5
AP reports comedian Alan Sues known as Big Al on Laugh In was robbed Sunday night in Columbus. Two unidentified men punched him, knocked out two teeth, and stole a courtesy car while he rehearsed for Kenley Players Good News. Sues said no money was taken and police were alerted after he wandered to find help.
Dennis Friel notes Munich coverage will favor not instant replays with events like the 100 meters recorded for later edited broadcast. ABC will air delayed tapes from Munich for U.S. viewers, and satellite updates will allow rapid editing. Global coverage aims for a historic audience approaching one billion.
Paramount announces The Godfather Part II to be filmed early next year with Al Pacino as star and Francis Ford Coppola returning as producer and director. The premiere is set for March 27, 1972, with Gulf and Western projecting $125 to $150 million in rentals, aiming to surpass Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music box office records.
More than 100 color television cameras and 91 color video recorders including replay gear will cover the Olympics. About 2,500 TV technicians announcers and officials will operate the system for 35 events across 33 arenas with up to 15 sports at once.
Two Ohio Penitentiary trusties escaped from the old prison about 9 p.m. Monday. John Richard West, 35, serving 10 to 25 years for armed robbery, and Harold Mathews, 41, serving 3 to 19 years for breaking and entering and grand larceny, both from Hamilton County.
Tonight features Little Joe in danger from a kicked horse, a three part Evangelical conference in Dallas by Campus Crusade for Christ, a new John Byner series, Mod Squad flashbacks amid amnesia, Cincinnati Reds vs Astros, Hawaii Five-O plot with a double agent, a former safecracker blackmailing a heist, and Marcus Welby about a cystic fibrosis baby and parental guilt.
Wilbur Cohen president of Cohen Brothers Inc is named to a national Industry Advisory Committee on Iron and Steel Scrap Problems for a two year term by Secretary of Commerce Peter G Peterson. The panel advises on scrap use conservation solid waste air pollution and beautification issues. Cohen resides at 1813 Schirm Drive.
In an Orpheum Theater comeback Miss Rand performs her famous pink fan dance in a 1936 revival. The 68 year old star, famous from the 1933 Chicago world fair, showcases the same routine that once wowed audiences across Chicago San Diego Dallas and San Francisco.
Channels list 8:30 the Eyes of Charles Sand on Ch 22 with Peter Haskell, 8:30 Night Slaves on Ch 12 with James Franciscus, 9 A Night to Remember on Ch 19 with Loretta Young, 11:30 The Power on Ch 9 and 22 with George Hamilton, and 11:30 At Gun Point on Ch 19 with Fred MacMurray.
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