Community Players hold tryouts for The Fantasticks
Middletown area residents are invited to join the reorganized Campus Community Players for a four production year. Tryouts are on Wednesday at 7 pm in Finkelman Auditorium. Malcolm Sedam leads as producer with Keith Wolfram directing and David Ballard guiding admissions. The Fantasticks opens Feb 26 and 27, followed by Dirty Work at the Crossroads, Barefoot in the Park, and Carousel later in the year. The group is sponsored by Campus and Arts In Middletown.
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Middletown Area
Finkelman
Malcolm Sedam
Sedam
Middletown
Japan
William Harrison
Keith Wolfram
David Ballard
Directions
Middletown Campus Community Players
The
Campus and
Arts In
AIM
Expensive New Year Parade for Philadelphia Mummers
The Philadelphia Mummers parade on New Year’s Day is set to be the costliest in 71 years with over 650000 spent by 16000 male marchers. 76000 in cash prizes will be awarded as 22 string bands five comic clubs and four fancy divisions vie through neighborhood events and door to door fundraisers. The annual celebration embraces tradition with costumes fresh for each march and a slogan of patriotism as wives note the hobby’s toll on marriages while men pledge to protect a no ladies rule. The parade’s roots reach back to the mid 1600s in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Fred Calandra
Philadelia Mummers Association
John Whedbee
Kensingston String Band
Calandra
Shot Suspect Cop Pleads Innocent In Rights Case
In Columbus Ohio AP officers report over 3 percent of police attended as Robert A Morgan 24 pleads innocent in federal court to a civil rights violation charge. Judge Joseph P Kinneary sets earliest trial date after continuing his recognizance bond. Morgan indicted for shooting and killing burglary suspect Jan 1 1970 depriving victim of due process. Mor gan supporters outside the courtroom urge backing of the officer. Thorpe reappointed in state government post. Ohio House announces James Thorpe GOP chair of Local Government and Urban Affairs.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert A. Morgan
Joseph P. Kinneary
Morgan
Fraternal Order of Police
Pulitzer Winner Says Historians Standards Down
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Oscar Handlin, Harvard professor, warns that history writing has fallen three decades due to a decline in craftsmanship. He says historians have isolated themselves from modern language changes since Eliot Joyce and Pound, failing to focus on language surface meanings and documentation quality.
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Boston
Oscar Handlin
Handlin
Harvard
American Historical Association
Eliot
Joyce
Pound
SST Controversy Delays New Congress Action
Washington AP reports the supersonic transport project faces a House Senate conference that may push funding into March 1971. Sen. Proxmire opposes adjournment with SST unresolved, while Magnuson and others warn a separate SST vote could derail the broader $2.7 billion transportation appropriation.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
91St
William Proxmire
D-Wis
United States
Proxmire
Air Medal Award for Capt Moorman in California
News of servicemen reports Captain Frank T. Moorman of 6152 Germantown Road received his seventh Air Medal at McClellan AFB for outstanding airmanship as an EC-121 navigator on missions in hazardous conditions during a year in Vietnam. Also listed are other servicemen milestones and enrollments from local families.
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AIR Force
Frank. T. Moorman
Germantown Road
McClellan Afb
Calif
Vietnam
Fenwick High School
Lackland FB
Tex
University of Notre Dame
Trump Coup Takes Seven Spades in Simple Play
Bridge expert B Jay Becke explains a rare trump coup where South after a doubtful overcall reached seven spades. West led diamonds, ruffed, then South staged a sequence reducing trumps to match East. A heart king and a club run secured a grand slam as East declined to ruff, leaving East with two cards and South's A T spades holding the decisive lead.
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South l
West
Declarer
East
South
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the Fantasticks
Campus Community Players Board of Director
William Jones
Harvey Schmidt
Momum
Phila
E Thorpe
James Thorpe
Rott Alliance
Ohio House Times
I F. Kurfess
R-4
Perrys
Splain
Charles James iCook Jr
Sen
Warren G. Magnuson
SST
Magnuson
Sen. Hen
Jty
M. Jackson
D-Wash
Moorman
Danny D. King
John King
Keister Road
Marine Corps ‘Recruit Depot
San Diego
William D. Deaton
William ¥. Werth
Princeton Ave
da Nang AB
James R. Brown
Louis J. Brown
Superior Ave
Terry McClellan
Harry McClellan
Spriingboro
Navy
Frank Rawls Jr
Mary K L. Rawls
Pine St
Defense Language Institute
East Coast
Washington, D.C
Syracuse
N.Y
Berlin
Germany
ARMY
Mark J. Eckart
Charles C. Eckert
Denial Ave
Cpl. Edwards
McClellan
Trump
By B. Jay Becke
NORTH
RES
Central Avenue
S. Verity Parkway
Pignis
Chuck
Folger’s
Sauer Kraut
Morton
U. S
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