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5 il A gl tktifunntf INSIDE PAT DENATO, features editor, 5 1 5-281-8029 TV listings 2T Comics 3T Classifieds 7T 1 i I I I Monday, December 21, 1987 mwmtmmmmmMBmmt GARY FANDELThe Resisle' one mtimim 7U SI Perfect strangers now a perfect match after marrow transplant 1 7, ft A Bonded to the ft By VALERIE MONSON Reolitor Staff Writer mqpj- OWA CITY, IA. A year ago, the i self-admitted party queen of Jack Special to The Real ter I 4 1 4 son, thought the party might be over. i I I "When you're put in a I life-and-death situation, it opens yur eves a lot of things," says 17-year-old Amy Wagner, waiting for tests in the nuclear medicine department at University Hospitals here. Last Christmas, she wasn't sure if she'd ever be able to accept another invitation. A blond ballerina who was addicted to shopping, she learned she had leukemia, a cancer of the blood.

The teen-ager who was so full of life was suddenly facing a premature date with death. Without a bone marrow transplant, she had no chance to live. Then an unexpected guest arrived. Janet Ma-harry, a West Des Moines mother of three teen-agers, offered to donate her bone marrow to anyone's it matched and it matched Amy's. Janet underwent minor surgery last February at University Hospitals in this unguaranteed procedure of a transplant between unrelated donors.

Healthy marrow was drawn from Janet's hips and injected into Amy. Then the wait began. Would the transplanted marrow grow in Amy? Would the old leukemia cells invade the new marrow? The answer For the answer, you needed only to attend another party held at a friend's home here where she was looking like the healthiest kid on the block nine months after the operation. "Wait! My camera didn't flash. Can we do that over?" cries Amy's mother, Peg Wagner.

"With tears or without?" replies damp-eyed Janet Maharry as she and Amy hug each other. This was the first time that Janet and Amy the perfect strangers who became a perfect match had seen each other since last spring when Amy was released from the hospital. Both will tell you, however, they're now as close as blood relatives. "I always think about Janet," says Amy. "1 don't think more than two days go by when someone doesn't ask me about Amy," says Janet.

"I'm always thinking about her." Although it is more than a year too soon to sound the all-clear siren for Amy living a long and normal life, the teen-ager is alive and shopping without a single sign that Janet's transplanted bone marrow has become cancerous. Finds it gratifying "Amy has a disease that would have been incurable without the transplant," says Dr. Michael Trigg, director of the pediatric bone marrow transplant center here, and the man who got Amy and Janet together. "It's gratifying to see she's doing well." Make that extremely gratifying. That's because, in this risky business of bone marrow transplants between unrelated donors, the sad endings still outnumber the happily-ever-af-ters.

Although the University of Iowa has been performing such procedures for about six years, Trigg says they have been occurring on a larger scale for only "the last year or two." The success rate has been about 40 percent, a fig- JJ bone marrow, courtesy of Janet Maharry. just empty," she says. "She was dead." That makes quite an impression on a kid who thinks life goes on forever. "It gives you a whole different outlook, which is probably better than the one I had," she says. In the old days, she was a social butterfly who could never just say no to a night on the town.

"Amy's turned over a new leaf," says Peg Wagner. "Now she sticks close to home. She's ABC drops 3 shows, revamps its lineup In an effort to save "Dolly" and reverse a plunge in its prime-time ratings, ABC has revamped its Thursday through Sunday schedule. Three programs did not survive the changes. Vanishing in early January will be "Buck James," "Motel" and "I Married Dora." The major change moves "Dolly" from Sunday to Saturday and returns the ABC Sunday night movie to the lineup starting Jan.

1 7. Also getting new time slots are "The Charmings," "Spenser: For Hire," "Sledge Hammer," Mr. Belvedere" and "Ohara." Here is the new ABC lineup from Thursday through Saturday beginningJan. 14: Thursday: "The Charmings" (at 7) followed by "The ABC Thursday Night Movie" (at Friday: "Full House" (at 7), "Mr. Belvedere" (at "The Thorns" (at 8), "Sledge Hammer!" (at 8:30) and "20-20" (at 9).

Saturday: "Dolly" (at 7), "Ohara" (at 8) and "Spenser: For Hire" (at 9). Sunday: "The Disney Sunday Movie" (at 6) and "The ABC Sunday Night Movie" (at 8). The new show on the schedule is "The Thorns," a comedy starring Tony Roberts as a New York public relations man living beyond his means. New Burlington TV station delays debut The new independent TV station in Burlington, KJMH-TV on channel 26, now expects to go on the air full-time in early January, according to station officials. KJMH originally planned to go on the air Nov.

29, but equipment problems have kept the station dark. Station managers hope to begin testing their 30-mile radius signal a couple of hours each night beginning tonight. Burlington Broadcasting whose principal owner is Burlington attorney Steven Hoth, has been trying to get the station on the air since acquiring a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission in 1984. Turner buvs movies; won't colorize 'Kane' Turner Broadcasting System has acquired exclusive world rights to 800 movies made by RKO Pictures. They include "Citizen Kane" and the original "King Kong." Turner, which operates the "super-station" TBS and the Cable News Network, has owned the rights to the 3 MGM library since 1 986.

Ted Turner, who controls all of the entities mentioned above and loves to colorize classic movies, has a surprise for those who hate colorized classic movies He has promised not to colorize "Citizen Kane." Nice going, Ted. Oprah repeats offered for late-night slots The people who make "The Oprah Winfrey Show" apparently are taking a hint from the cable industry, which lives by the credo: Anything worth showing once is worth showing again. Starting in the fall, repeats of the daytime Oprah show will be available for the same station to offer in late-night time slots for viewers who can't watch during the day. Since it went on the air in September 1986, Oprah has been a ratings juggernaut. First it conquered mornings and Phil Donahue.

Now it dominates its afternoon time period. Scribbles and scraps Hollywood insiders say that Aaron Spelling has scripts in development for "Charlie's Angels '88." Farrah Faw-cett, who has spent years trying to erase her "Angels" past, won't be in the sequel. ABC says, with a major sigh of relief, that filming has been completed for the mega-miniseries sequel "War and Remembrance." Shooting the movie took 21 months. The 30-hour sequel to "Winds of War" will air next season. Ed Flanders, who bowed out of "St.

Elsewhere" earlier this season with a show-stopping baring of his buttocks, will reappear in a coming episode, but only as an outsider. Dr. Mark Craig (William Daniels), who is going through a rough time while his estranged wife carries on with the new Dr. Gideon (Ronny Cox), will crack up, lose his job and seek refuge at the Vermont cabin of Flanders' departed Dr. Westphall.

The Smothers Brothers will tape a 20th-year reunion special of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" in Hollywood the first week of January, for airing Feb. 3 on CBS. Former regulars including Pat. Paulsen will be featured, as well as two superstars who got their start behind the scenes of the then-controversial show: Steve Martin and Rob Reiner. Dave Rhein ci V4 3 A i Amy Wagner is doing fine with her new ure Trigg says is "better than we had anticipated, but there's still a lot of room for improvement." Amy can tell you the odds sometimes seem lower when you're the one who has everything to lose.

Too many times, she'll tell you, she went to visit some of her friends in the bone marrow transplant unit, only to find their beds stripped, their charts removed. "There was this one girl who was my friend, and I went to see her one day and her room was By LLNDASHRIEVES 117 Orlando SentliMl Move over, "Dogue." Goodbye, "Cat-mopolitan." So long, "Canine Quarterly." Say hello to the newest animal parody magazine. It's "Cowsmopolitan," a spoof of the women's magazine that gives new meaning to the phrase "udderly irreverent." Aimed at the growing throng of bovine aficionados, it may be just the thing for the cow-lover who has the requisite cow creamer, cow posters, cow's-head towel holders and cow jewelry. From cover cow Wynn McCaig to the bachelor of the month, Mr. Avail A.

Bull, the magazine ($7.95, Day Dream Publishing) holds nothing sacred not even cows. "Cowsmo" lampoons "Cosmo" completely, from its features on "cowsmedic surgery" and "How to Milk Your Ex for Everything" down to the "What's Your Lovemaking IQ?" test. Author Thomas Hagey, who wrote the 1984 jarody "The Best of Playboar," steered away Charlotte Elmets, who runs a business that comes up with ideas for party givers, suggests the ol' tried-and-true scavenger hunt can be a great success if the clues are creative. Or, says Elmets, how about a "Suppressed Desire" party in which guests are invited to come dressed in a way that expresses their innermost secret desire. That sounds like it could be dangerous.

Her next suggestion sounds a little more sedate, perhaps. Have guests bring a snapshot of themselves as a baby. Then post the photos on a bulletin board and have the guests figure out who's who. At a 40th anniversary party, one couple 'Cowsmopolitan 'parody is udderly irreverent Iowan Janet Maharry stepped in to save the life of a stranger from Michigan. Bone marrow donors needed Because Amy Wacner is not the only person whose young life depends on a bone marrow transplant, other donors are needed.

"Of course, there's always a need," says Dr. Michael Tngg, director of the pediatric bone marrow transplant center at University Hospitals Iowa Citv. "The more people we have sign up, the better the chance of matching someone. The larger the pool, the more tissue types we have available." And the more lives that can be saved. The procedure for the donor involves minor surgery at the hospitals, where an overnight stay probably would be required.

A local anesthetic is administered and the bone marrow drawn from a hip. Ail expenses are, naturally, absorbed by the University of Iowa hospitals. You may donate anonymously, or if both parties agree, meet the person to whom you donate your marrow. Janet Maharry, who donated her marrow to Amy, will tell you that the procedure involves little pain, and in several days, she was back to her old routine of jogging, aerobics and playing tennis with the great satisfaction that she had helped save the life of a teen-ager. For more information about the University of Iowa's bone marrow transplant program, phone (319) 356-3337.

real quiet socially, which is unlike Amy. She doesn't have that desire to run around anymore. Those things aren't as important now." Indeed, the old Amy probably would have MARROW Please turn to Page 4T been cleverly spoofed in an ad for "Fences Hedges." "Cowsmo" promises to moo (er, move) off the shelves quickly, thanks to the current cow craze. In the month since "Cowsmo" was released, the original printing of 105,000 copies has sold out and the magazine is about to enter its second printing. One national chain of bookstores has already put the magazine on its list of permanent stock, and sales have prompted the publisher to make plans for a 1989 "Cowsmopolitan" calendar Hagey immodestly calls his magazine "a classic little piece of satire" and predicts it will be around a long time.

But he admits part of the attraction comes from the cows themselves. "There's something very nice about cows," he says. "They're milk and motherhood; they're black and white. And they're really coming into vogue." "What the? This is lemonodel Where's my culture o( omoeblc dysentery?" A 4 4 1 ii IS' 18 TA The cover from pigs this time for a magazine featuring another of his favorite animals: cows. "We've been dogged and catted and horsed out," said Hagey, 35, who spent his childhood raising pigs and dairy cows on a Canadian farm.

"Plus," he added. "I know all the models personally." Taking a swipe at the traditional fashion magazine stories, Hagey has included the continuing saga of Chuck and Di the romance between a cow named Di and her boyfriend, now just a chuck steak. There's a fashion spread for the cow that wants to dress for success and a personal note from editor Ellen Guernsey Brown. Advertisements compete with the articles for belly laughs. An ad for Cowvin Klein's "Confession" features udders sprawled across the page, while Benson Hedges cigarettes have asked guests to come as they were 40 years ago, Elmets says.

Not that old? Two enterprising couples came as chromosomes. Another business woman who works with party throwers is Diane Fisher, owner of Diane Designs an invitation-making operation. "Have you ever heard of pitchfork fondue?" asked Fisher. "Heat soybean oil in a great big barrel and cook steaks in it speared on pitch forks." A real ice breaker, that. To do today Last week's Monday lunch guests were Mr.

and Mrs. Santa Claus. The story will be in Tuesday's paper. Today's guest is Register photographer Bob Nanclell. He'll give us some tips on snooting good pictures.

Call Younkers Tea Room (247-7161) for a reservation. Cost: $5. Next week's guest is public relations expert Mary Riche. Ideas to sharpen up a dull holiday party Ann and David Bauer, nu Mary and Timm Johnson, JULlC GAmMAuK Marie rain ana jane Kramer all headed to Sally Naylor's house for an unusual party. The friends with rented musical instruments in hand got together to recreate some of those magic moments from their high school band davs.

The party was a hit. How could they miss with a French horn, piano, guitar, flute, trombone and trumpet? Even non-musical spouses joined in with kazoos. What a good idea. Here are some other unusual party ideas for the holiday season: One Des Moines hostess has invited New Year's Eve revelers to bring a game when they come for dinner..