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jJooToTo ftooooTj reopletaUt L7 i i 1 Buster Crabbe Back in 25th Century After 40 Years By ITIaad New Ytrt Timet Living It Up KHBBW In Newt Services An unexpected character shows up in the Buck Rogers" film being made by NBC TV. Gil Geraro, playing the space-nun of the Cth century familiar to readers of Sunday comics of the 1930s, is aided by an aged rocket ship pilot. "Good snooting." says Geraro-Rogers. "I was doing this before you were born." snaps the old timer, identified as "Brigadier Gordon." And so he was. That's Buster Crabbe, who 40 years ago played both Buck Rogers and that other space hero, Flash Gordon, in serials.

Crabbe. now 71, said was the first time be had been on Universal Studios' lot since be last played Gordon in 1940. As Gordon explains to that whip-persnapper Rogers in one scene, "I come from another era." Remember What? Former Navy officer turned businessman Edward R. Murphy says "It's time we had some fun with it." It wasn't much fun at the time, "it" being Murphy's capture by North Korean forces in 1968 when he was executive officer of the spy ship USS Pueblo. Murphy, 42, now sells recrea i N.

1 The ousted Nicaraguan president, Anastasio Somoza De-bayle, is living it up on Great Exuma in the Bahamas, according to the skipper of one of two yachts that was hired by the Somoza party for the trip. The skipper, Capt Mark Elliott, whose 82-foot yacht, King Arthur, is back in Miami, said Somoza and his party including his companion of many years, Dinorah Sampson, four of his five children, his half brother, and four bodyguards -left Fort Lauderdale, on July 20, reached Great Exuma on the 23d and went ashore four days later. the Avante, the other yacht carrying the rest of the party, is still in the Bahamas, Elliott said, but is due back in Florida next Wednesday, with or without the Somoza group. He said that before leaving Fort Lauderdale, the two yachts were equipped with cases of champagne and vodka and "suitcases filled with $100 bills." The Somoza group bought an estimated $8,000 worth of "mounds of caviar and pate and fine cuts of meat and poultry" at the Epicure Market-in Miami, paying in cash. Elliott said that the heavily drinking members of the Somoza party had caused $3,000 in damage to his craft during the week they were aboard and that he had finally told Somoza, "Your people are slobs." Returns the Favor The mayor of Manhattan, Kan.

Friday called on the may-or of Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn, belatedly repaying a visit by another New York may 10 $ag which stars Gil Geraro, right. One of Crabbe's lines in the show has him saying, I come from FLASH, MEET BUCK After almost 40 years, Buster Crabbe, left, returned to Universal Studios in Hollywood to play an aged space another era." (UP! Telephoto) pilot on NBC Buck Rogers movie for television. on his statement of candidacy as a Democrat and says, "I'll accept the vice presidency on any ticket Jimmy, Jerry, Teddy, they're all the same to me." KIDS WILL LOVE TO WEAR their new GLASSES back to school this year, whin they are from COLUMBUS OPTICAL KIDS, you can choose from a wide selection of FLINTSTONES' EYEWEAR Father Works Singer Melissa Manchester got her start in music from her father and is paying back the debt. Her first exposure to music was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where father David was a bassoonist. Now, where Melissa sings, daddy plays, even though anti-nuclear rock music benefits in Hollywood, one of his last outings, are a change of pace from the Met.

for a very reasonable price. "We see the need to serve you best" tional vehicles in El Cajon, Calif and that's how he's "having fun" with his past. He distributes ballpoint pens bearing the slogan "Go Camping Buy From the Spy." He hopes to launch radio jingles and license-plate holders with the inscription, although, he said, "You'd be surprised how many people don't even remember the Pueblo." and sport, most probably get their main exercise by walking. Rep. Peter Peyser, suspecting that to be true, made an experiment.

Every working day for four weeks, from 7:30 a.m. until the House adjourned each evening, the Westchester Democrat wore a pedometer, and now the results are in. He said Thursday that, as-turning his fellow members of Congress walk about the same amount during a working day as he does, each walks 13 miles a week. Since Congress usually is in session 40 weeks a year, that's 920 miles of walking on the job for each member of Congress. 2475 Cottage Columbus Optical Columbus, IN Charles Oliver 47201 English Murder When Gilda Radner made her Broadway debut Thursday night she portrayed, among other characters, her famous "nerd," Lisa Loopner, and while no one can say for certain that Lisa helped popularize the word, Walter Glanze said Thursday that he had decided, just last month, to add "nerd" to the paperback edition of the Scribner-Bantam English Dictionary, of which he is managing editor.

Certified Optician 372-41 1 7 How Beautiful He's Young A part-time English instructor at Brooklyn College and at Long Island University has gone to the trouble of qualifying with the Federal Election Com mission to run for vice presi- "Nerd has been around for aent ot tne umiea even about 15 yearSi" he said, "but I uiuugn lie jmh not ce hp ne used ih young to serve ATTENTION HOMEOWNERS! Borrow Up To With 10 Year Terms or to the Kansas town. Mayor Terry Glasscock, whose Middle Western city has a population of 32,000, visited Mayor Edward I. Koch in his City Hall office and said that some 40 years ago Mayor Fio-rello H. La Guardia had visited Manhattan, Kan. Glasscock said he was "pleased to return the compliment, belatedly." Glasscock presented Koch with a framed photograph of the birthplace of Damon Run-yon, who was born in the Kansas Manhattan and came here to write about the colorful denizens of another Manhattan in short stories and novels that were the basis for "Guys and Dolls." He also told Koch that Manhattan, was in sound financial shape, with a surplus in its $2 million budget.

Later, Koch told reporters, "I'm pumping him to find out how." Zappa's Diva Frank Zappa, one of the more esoteric rock composers, is noted for having walked on the far side of eccentricity in naming his first three children, Moon Unit, now 11 years Old; Dweezil, 9, and Ahmet Emuukha Rodan, 5. So it was not too surprising, a few weeks ago, that Zappa said of the impending birth of a 4th child, "If it's a boy, we'll name it Burt Reynolds, and if it's a girl, Clint Eastwood." the child has been born and, whether it is because Zappa is mellowing with age, or perhaps because his wife Gail had her way, the 6 pound, 8 ounce girl has been given a comparatively sedate name Diva. Late night TV-watchers across the land know about "Beautiful downtown Burbank" from Johnny Carson. For years Carson has made the Los Angeles suburb home of his "Tonight Show" studio the butt of jokes such as "Burbank leads the United States in the number of squirrel suicides," or "Burbank Airport has 94 departures a day -tand no arrivr als." To show there's no hard feelings, guess whose beaming face adorns the cover of the latest Burbank telephone That's right. Heyy-oooo.

Now He Knows Entertainer John Davidson says he's learned more" about buffalo since his encounter with a ton of peeved bison two weeks ago. Davidson is still under a doctor's care for rib injuries and a gashed leg, received when a buffalo tossed him on Santa Catalina Island, just off the Southern California coast. Fellow singer Kenny Rogers sent Davidson a toy stuffed buffalo. Davidson's former agent, Ken Kragen, sent a book on bison, which Davidson, read. The book taught him, he said, that "You just can't play tag with a buffalo.

They're very creasing frequency, especially among 18- to 25-year-olds." The dictionary, shipped to bookstores this week, lists "nerd" as a noun meaning a "gauche, tacky or uncool person; creep." Glanze said that other standard dictionaries did not include the word. He added, "English is a fluid language and it changes. That's why lexicography is an art. Yon have to develop a. feel for words which are ephemeral, and which are here to stay.

You don't include a word just because it's modem." The Scribner-Bantam also includes "gas-guzzler," and after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident Glanze added "meltdown." But the Lee Marvin-Michele Triola case was not notable enough, in the editor's book, to get "palimony" into dictionary. Lots of Exercise Although quite a few members of Congress jog for health "I wanted to see if anybody could do it," said the teacher, Richard Grayson, "Apparently anybody can." Thatcher, who was given the identification, number of P00000851 by the commission, said Thursday that he had registered "to protest the insane way in which we choose our leaders." Aside from the fact that he is 28 years old and one must be 35 to serve as vice president, there is also the question whether federal matching funds apply for Grayson. There are apparently no provisions in the law for independent candidacies for vice president, so the Election Commission is going to have-to meet on that issue. Grayson said he was trying to raise bus fare to New Hampshire to campaign in the country's first primary. He has never been there before, he said, but he has been to Vermont and "I understand they're about the same." The candidate, who lives in Brooklyn, lists himself Harriet R.

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She argued with God, pointing out all the reasons why the other person was unworthy of any love. "But God, you know how irritating she is. She gets A's on all her papers. She gets up early every morning and gets her studies organized. She even eats like a machine -every morsel is placed perfectly and precisely in her mouth." Finally, tired of the mental struggle with the idea, the young nursing student prayed, "God, I give up.

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