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Behind The Scenes No Rock For The Garden Akron Beacon Journal 27 Sunday, September 12, 1971 Let's see. What would be next, by logic? Uh, a musical version of "David Copperfield" with Tom Jones in the title role and Lulu as Little Dora? Dont-K 0 w-Whether-To-Laugh-0 r-Throw-Up: Film producers Allan Carr and Roger Smith have acquired the film rights "to "The Student Prince" and are reported planning a movie version which would star Ann-Margret and Engelbert Humperdinck! family. Boys and girls longer axe to say tBeir parents are la-de-da. Me dad Is me dad and me mum is me mum." There must be a message there SOMEWHERE Department of You- York and Chicago, 100 to the Washington "They were all angry as hell," admitted a network spokesman A Fall segment of National Tclevi- HOOVER AND EUREKA SWEEPERS 25c 1 WHITE SEWING MACHINES SLEEPY SONGER I jiig I STEREO SYSTEMS Consoles Compacts Components All Top Brands to Guy Lombardo, which suggests that ALL radio music inhibits the vegetation. IN northeastern a Cleveland man reported he had been listening to WGAR's "Imus In the Morning" while painting his house and the ivy on outside walls "showed a distinct tendency to creep toward the radio, as if seeking to choke off the sound." Also, an Akron man said his radio was tuned constantly to WDBN-FM and reported his cactus plant had turned "all soft and mushy." And a Barberton woman who said WSLR was her favorite station reported "strange, yellow kernels" were forming on her begonia Speaking of Don Imus (that is, WGAR's morning man), that gentleman has received a Bill- OPENY' 150 era (-Track Storce Top I 1095 I HOURS without f.r dosing I o'e9" STARTS SUNDAY SEPT.

12th at 12:00 Noon The questions before the house are these: Can you insure yourself of having the biggest aspidistra in the world keeping your radio tuned to Mantovani music? Or, conversely, would it stunt your rhododendron if Leon Russell and the Shelter People were blasting away on the radio? What brings this up is a report from a Missouri woman that, upon exposing her beans, squash, corn and morning glories to rock radio, all the plants withered and died within a month! BUT PLANTS that had been exposed to "calm devotional music" all prospered, growing taller and exhibiting a tendency to bend toward the speaker. Chicago TV columnist Norman Mark was so intrigued by the report he contacted several a-tion managers for their views on radio's capacity for plant inhibition or growth promotion. John Catlett of Chicago's "good m-usic" WBBM-FM said he was certain the music from his station contributed to the growth of greenery. "I put my securities and stocks in front of the radio and the sound of WBBM-FM helps them grow." ON THE other hand, Larry O'Brien of WCFL expressed belief that rock music almost killed his marigolds. "They were listening to 'Hurrah For Hazel' by Tommy Roe and they began to wilt.

Only calm music, like that of Lawrence Welk, saved them. You just can't let your favorite philodendron lis-ten to the Chambers Brothexs However, another WCFL broadcaster said none of his plants is allowed to listen' to music. He said his plants withered even when listening -a JANE FONDA fascinating? i 0 's award-winning "Great American Dream Machine" will feature Jane Fonda in a piece titled "Fascinating Women." Jane will review the fantasies and realities of being a housewife, secretary, teacher, nurse, hippie and Playboy bunny girl Before you invest in that cable TV stock, you might want to look over these statistics from the Television Information Office: Fifty-seven pet. of all TV homes in the U. S.

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Fashion model Twiggy, making her film debut in "The Boy Friend" (an MGM release), has offered this assessment of her fame to date: "I expressed a happen- DON IMUS tried harder? board magazine award as the No. 1 radio per-sonality-of-the-year in a major market. Imus shared the award with "Laugh-In's" Gary Owens, who's heard on the West Coast over Los Angeles' KMPC Radio. Imus, a product of Arizona State University, came to Cleveland in 1970 after earlier deejay stints in Stockton and Sacramento, Cal Just how much of a national emergency is it when Joe Namath injures his knee? That's what some irate NBC viewers wanted to know last month when the Saturday Night Movie (on Aug. 7) was interrupted for a news bulletin on Namath's exhibition game injury (suffered in the New York Jets' game w.i.t.h Detroit.) Viewer reaction included 50 protest calls to the NBC outlet in Cleveland 1972 TELEVISIONS 12" Portables Mow 74.00 7" Portable AC or DC) How 99.00 15" Color Portable Mow 249.00 18" Color Portable Mow 299.00 1972 STEREO COMPONENTS AM FM Stereo System 69.00 Stereo Components 36.00 Table Radios 12.00 Solid State Compacts 136.00 8-Trock Tape Player (AC or DC) 54.00 Stereo Record Player 69.00 WHITE SEWING MACHINES Heavy Duty Portables $49.00 Deluxe Zig-Zags 98.00 Super Deluxe Zig-Zags 139.00 Consoles from 30.00 1972 HOOVER EUREKA SWEEPERS Canister Models 22.95 Deluxe Uprights 59.95 Diol-A-Matics 94.95 Electric Brooms 24.95 Hand Sweepers 23.95 Scrubber Polishers 19.95 FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS Parts and Service BankAmericard All Mckts of Sweepers Master Charge And Sewing Machines Bonk Terms SONGER APPLIANCE 633 5586 Twiggy ing.

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