Forrest Tucker dies of lung cancer at 67 in California
Actor Forrest Tucker longtime heavy turned TV comic star of F Troop died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills after a brief illness. He was 67 born February 12 1919 in Plainfield Indiana. He appeared in The Westerner Keeper of the Flame and more than 50 films and starred as Morgan O Rourke on F Troop 1965 1967.
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CBS chief forecasts lean profits for networks ahead
CBS Inc chief Laurence Tisch says TV networks will face low or no profits for a couple of years after a 1980s spending binge. He notes CBS profits will dip in 1987 but costs cuts aim to protect programming. He stresses no cuts to news or entertainment and that savings fund better shows.
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Inmate DJ Station Sings Jailhouse Rock at Angola Penitentiary
At Louisiana State Penitentiary KLSP is run by inmates who broadcast eight hours daily featuring news sports and music from Top 40 to jazz and blues. Richard Avery one of two inmate disc jockeys says the role offers pay of four cents an hour and pride in educating and entertaining fellow prisoners.
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Professor uncovers Isaac Orcutt tied to New England ballad
In a decade long search Melvin G. Williams of American International College identifies Isaac Orcutt and family links in upstate New York, tracing the 18th century ballad to Egremont and later Hartford New York, clarifying roots of the Ballad of Isaac Orcutt. The work resolves where Isaac lived and died and will be presented to the Mid Hudson Modern Language Society.
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