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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1961
Page
12
Cynthia Lowry notes TV weather reports mix science with graphics and glamour. Viewers must decipher maps and forecasts as announcers rush the pace. The piece laments female weather presenters drawing attention to appearance while radios offer the official forecast. A stray line mentions the craps dice game entering America in 1813.
The piece notes networks limit political jokes after Kennedy's rise, citing NBC cutting a Carney Remick Kennedy skit for policy reasons. It contrasts Ike and Kennedy humor, praises ABC for challenging censorship with The Untouchables and urges no government or network censorship, stressing democratic values.
TV tonight features Sam Levene guest on Aquanauts and Drake Andrews cast as murder suspect. Xavier University faces Louisville in basketball at Cincinnati Gardens. Christopher Plummer stars in The Prisoner of Zenda with Farley Granger and Inger Stevens. Tom Lopaka investigates a loan racket on Hawaiian Eye while Peter Loves Mary offers a solo acting turn. Circle Theater dramatizes phony medicine swindles. Jack Paar hosts Jack Douglas and wife Reiko.
Barbara Rooney claims Elaine Mahnken pressured Mickey Rooney into a support agreement by threats to ruin Barbara's reputation and his career. Elaine sues Rooney for 36432 in back installments while Rooney counters, asking why payments can't be cut to 150 monthly.
In San Antonio Jose M Moreno, 65, reports he and his 15 year old bride Maria Candia have separated after 12 days of marriage. He found her missing on Friday and blames her father who brought nine relatives to live with them four days after the January 6 ceremony. He says the father is pressuring her.
Dick Powell reportedly is agreeable to a 2.5 million property settlement as actress June Allyson sues for divorce alleging mental cruelty. The suit filed by attorney Jerry Giesler says settlement papers were signed Dec 30 in Europe. Powell, in London, says he will fly home and does not contest the divorce. The couple, married 15 years, separated earlier this month after a brief reconciliation in 1957.
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