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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1962
Page
7
AP report notes growing concern among speech purists over erosion of language in television and public speech. Tony Randall criticizes decline in enunciation while NBC TV special Arsenic and Old Lace features him next Monday.
Indoor craft notice advertises a Jiffy Knit set pattern 7453 for a striped helmet and mittens, with directions for all sizes. Send 35 cents plus 10 cents extra for first class mail to Alice Brooks Winchester Evening Star New York address. Include name address zone and pattern number. Also promotes 1962 Needlecraft Catalog with 200 designs and two free patterns for 25 cents.
Hollywood notes a slowdown with no films shooting locally. MGM has Who's Got the Action and Gypsy at Warner, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Disney, and Universal idle. Overseas work totals twelve films. four big independents in town. The 1962 outlook brightens as box office climbs and producers regain risk appetite.
The transatlantic liner Liberte arrived at La Spezia for demolition at Terestre Marittima shipyards. One hundred fifty workers will dismantle the 98 year old ship in nine months, reducing it to 38 thousand tons of scrap metal. Built in 1928 as Germany's Europa, she was ceded to France in 1946 as war reparation.
U S ambassador to India J K Galbraith will be hospitalized in Honolulu for two weeks for sinus trouble and probable amoebic dysentery He hopes to return to his New Delhi post in about two months Brig Gen A L Tyne Tripler Army Hospital said initial hepatitis tests were negative
Don Schwall of the Boston Red Sox limited his rookie season to eight home runs as he pitched 179 innings in his debut year.
Jaye P Morgan as Fran Davis stars in The Yacht Club Gang on CBS at 8 30 PM with Newhart and Neal. Mitchell Kane’s life seems in danger after his car tampering and a near fatal crash spurs discreet investigation.
A dense evening line up lists 5:00 p.m. to sign off with Kukla and Ollie, News Report slots, cartoons like Popeye and Tom and Jerry, live-action series including Wagon Train, Perry Como Show, Hawaiian Eye, and The Bob Newhart Show, plus movies such as The Heavenly Body and Cairo Road. Weather, sports, and area news wrap each hour.
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