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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1961
Page
3
TV guide style summary lists CBS Checkmate with a cartoonist hired to guard him from his own creation, the wife worried about her husband, and the syndicate fearing the cartoonist may end the strip. Guest stars include Mickey Rooney on O’Hara.
A rugged sheriff scene unfolds as Marshal Dillon saves a rancher from an ambush and learns the rancher remains in danger. TV listings note CBS Ed Sullivan Circus highlights from Paris to Tokyo and NBC Major League Baseball in Milwaukee.
A dense listing of TV programs across the evening including 5:00 4-Susie and 9-Movie titles like Henry Aldrich for President and Second Chorus. Notable entries feature World Of Sports, Capitol Hill Report, Leave It To Beaver, Lawrence Welk, and Have Gun Will Travel with star cast such as Fred Astaire Paulette Goddard and Bela Lugosi.
A $500 damage incident was reported to a woman's car after a collision with a 1955 Buick driven by an unidentified operator.
At 9 00 CBS presents a drama about a woman doctor who becomes paraplegic after heroism and fights to return to medicine with Ida Lupino. NBC airs Mystery Hour where a psychiatrist murders his wife then travels by plane with his girlfriend posing as his spouse starring Richard Carlson Joan OBrien Bert Freed and Barbara Stuart. CBS Holiday Lodge follows with Johnny Miller Frank Boone hiring a writer to uncover a famous child star. Evelyn Rudie Jan Arvan appear. 10 00 CBS Candid Camera repeats with Dorothy Collins as a shop clerk and a preschool scene with a lovable giant and a little king.
Civil rights demonstrators in Madison end a 13 day sit-in in the state capitol rotunda after failing to win passage of anti discrimination housing and governor's human rights bills. NAACP leader Lloyd Barbee says the action raised awareness and gains should be kept in view as 16 protesters depart quietly.
Hollywood icon Cary Grant pursues box office success with a new comedy Touch of Mink co starring Doris Day. Grant outlines his approach to comedy noting its challenge and audience payoff while describing the film’s premise of a man facing an untenable position and the resulting laughter.
Kansas county attorney Robert Brown declares enforcement of a 1933 law punishing selling or gifting cigarettes to anyone under 21 with fines or jail. Local students and officials express surprise at the prohibition, while school leaders admit they were unaware of the law amid recent smoking bans.
NASA reports Echo I celebrates one year in space despite a balloonlike 100 foot sphere showing reduced performance. Experts track about 40 percent drop in reflected energy since it launched on August 12, while voice teletype and facsimile transmissions remain possible.
A scientist asks if there is a limit to space and answers yes. The concise line suggests boundaries to the vast cosmos.
Observers discuss Echo’s evolving geometry as it orbits Earth, with estimates of a 70 foot diameter and possible football-like form. The thin shell may be perforated by micrometeoroid impacts while Echo completes 4,490 revolutions and 138 million miles in its first year of operation, supporting about 150 communications experiments.
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