Bing Crosby Takes Stagecoach Drunk Character Role
Hollywood veteran Bing Crosby appears in the John Ford classic Stagecoach as a down and out frontier doctor in a rare acting turn. Crosby explains the role offers a true character part and recalls prior drunk scenes while balancing TV work with Hollywood Palace hosting duties and plans to visit Europe for racing and hunting trips.
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TV Notes on CBS Nighttime Dramas and Daytime Shuffles
AP reports that CBS plans return of Our Private World star Lisa Hughes to daytime acting in As the World Turns while The Doctors and the Nurses fails as a nighttime series. The Nurses moves to ABC as a daytime soap, with Les Crane in Hollywood, leaving Tonight Show and Merv Griffin Show as New York chat rivals.
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Lisa Hughes
CBS
Dick van Dyke
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Lock, Stock
Les Crane
NBC
Merv Griffin
New York
Time For Us Detergent Drama Ends Its Run
ABC soap Time For Us ends Sept 24 after weak ratings. The show started as Flame in the Wind about a woman novelist writing a hometown book but shifted focus to two young nieces. Nightlife will replace it as ABC shifts daytime lineup.
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Peyton Place
Ohioans among Marines listed in C130 crash toll
The Defense Department releases a partial list of Marines killed or missing after a C130 crash in Hong Kong. Among the dead are Pvt. Richard A. Willis of Bloomington and Pfc. Barry N. Handleton of Toledo, with Lance Cpl. Cecil W. Burton of Columbus also killed. Lance Cpl. Harry C. McCartney of Painesville is listed as missing.
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Cecil W. Burton
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Toledo
Lance Cpl
Harry C. McCartney
Charles Chocky
Painesville
Television Highlights and Dramatic TV Listings
Evening schedule features Reds at Braves baseball on Channel 2 at 7 30 and a Baxter home cross walk dispute on Channel 7 9 30. Outer Limits on Channel 2 showcases alien particle cluster. Defenders drama stars Ruth White as a governess amid a kidnapping case. Hazel takes action after traffic board ignores cross walk request.
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Traffic Commission
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Ruth White
Jersey Town Tense As Negro Riot Put Down
Elizabethport police rushed reinforcements after carloads of Negro youths hurled gasoline bombs stones and bottles through shop windows and fire bombs. Fire engines were stoned as the crowd of about 200 dispersed quietly around 2 a.m. Police said the earlier disturbances were tense.
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N.J
Elizabethport
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Polk, Only House Speaker to Become U.S. President
The historical note identifies James K. Polk as the sole individual who served as Speaker of the House and later ascended to the presidency. It emphasizes his unique path from legislative leadership to the nation's highest office.
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House of Representatives
United States
James K. Polk
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