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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1963
Page
2
A brief oddly worded note compares a young cottontail rabbit’s slim one in twenty chance of living to its first birthday with a prompt to open eyes to opportunities in Light Want Ads. It emphasizes common animals and a call to notice opportunities.
Lloyd Shearer profiles Barbra Streisand in Parade explaining how her plain stage presence yields a powerful rise in singing. The feature traces her rise from obscurity to Broadway, nightclub and TV fame, comparing her impact to legends like Helen Morgan and Judy Garland. The piece highlights her renditions of Happy Days Are Here Again Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Coloring Book and notes her cult image in The Sunday Light Parade issue.
Navy helicopters battled gale winds to airlift eight men to safety from the weakened Texas Towers in the North Atlantic. Seven helicopters evacuated the crew from Towers 2 and 2 off Cape Cod as 18-foot waves battered the structures. The men were flown to Quonset Point Naval Air Station.
Louella Parsons reports King Crosby quietly attends Kathy Grant Crosby’s performance in Sunday in New York in Ware, Ohio, then plans to fly home with son Harry and daughter Rosanne while Bing Crosby rehearses a TV special. The piece also notes Joanie Sommers’ marriage, Miss Alabama pageant results, and various entertainment tidbits from Hollywood and New York.
A fragmented notice promotes a home study program for high school drop-outs. It invites readers to write to the San Antonio Office of National School of Home Study at 711 Alamo Nal Bank Building for more information and phone contact TAG-G696.
In Atlantic City New Jersey Judith Short Miss Alabama won the talent category for the Miss America pageant preliminaries with a marimba rendition while Rosanne Tueller Miss DC earned a figure award in a white bathing suit as the competition shifts toward the final contest.
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