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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1979
Page
5
PBS presents a one hour drama on Mark Twain’s pessimism and life’s futility titled Mark Twain Beneath the Laughter. Dan O Herlihy stars as Twain in a December 1909 setting, tracing loss, cynicism and the river’s fading grace as Twain confronts his daughter Jean’s Christmas Eve death.
New York AP reports Eileen Fulton plays a decaying cadaver on As the World Turns. Fulton says the gruesome scene required three hours of makeup and even prompted her to draft a will. The plot has Lisa discovering the dead wife wrapped in plastic and resembling her, prompting tense family reactions.
A historical listing shows day by day broadcast slots from Monday December 10 to Tuesday morning December 11 across networks NBC CBS ABC and affiliated local stations. It enumerates programs such as Big 2 News Weather NBC Nightly News Carol Burnett Jokers Wild Little House on the Prairie A Charlie Brown Christmas and various daytime and game shows including The Price Is Right Wheel of Fortune and General Hospital with start times and channel designations.
MORIARTY NM AP Dr Carol Rymer-Davis head of nuclear medicine at Lovelace Medical Center set a 31500 foot altitude record for hot air balloons braving 41 below zero temperatures. She launched near Moriarty about 30 miles east of Albuquerque just after dawn Saturday. This was her second record flight this year following a 25400 foot ascent on February 19 for balloons of similar size.
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