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By now you might have guessed what's ahead of you yes, the October Nielsen and Arbitron ratings for Twin Cities TV have arrived. Ratings being quantitative, they tell us little or nothing about the artistic or social worth of the programs. Nevertheless, the ratings matter. They are the local stations' score-cards the basis for setting the price of commercial time and for making program and personnel changes. If the on-air personnel at KARE-Ch.

1 1 seem even cheerier than usual, it's because the station made Twin Cities TV history last month. For the first time, Channel 1 1 (formerly WUSA, formerly WTCN) finished second in a three-way local news competition. At 10 p.m.; whe the news-viewing audience is the largest of the day, Channel 1 1 pulled ahead The Vietnam wall a place for farewells ble, man who even now rarely talked about Richie. But in the 18 years since Richie died, I had become acutely aware of missed opportunities and decided that I could not afford to miss this one. So, in late August, we packed our bags and boarded a plane for Washington: I had no idea how important this trip was going to be for me.

Oct. 16, 1967 The boat trip is miserable There are 4,000 troops on this ship and so crowded and hot inside you can hardly stand it. You wake up in the middle of the night soaked with sweat. It's not exactly a pleasure cruise. We arrive in Washington an hour before midnight and head for the Gold Star Mothers National Headquarters, a row house in the northwestern section of the city, where we will be spending the next four days.

I am surprised at how alive Washington is, even at this hour. The sidewalks are overrun with people: tourists, lovers, beggars and most likely a politician or two. Although we are tired, we deposit our luggage and go out for a walk, stopping to eat at a little Italian restaurant on Connecticut Av. The next morning, over breakfast, we visit with Winnie, the caretaker for the Gold Star Mothers headquarters. The organization is made up of mothers who have lost sons or daughters in the military service.

At one time it had 21 ,000 members; today it has only about 5,000. Mothers of World War II victims are dying, Winnie says, and many mothers who lost children in Vietnam are still too bitter to join the organization. Winnie's son died in Vietnam in March 1968. June 17, 1968 Well, the time will soon be here for me to get home. I've kept in pretty good humor and have been confident I'll be home safe.

I thank God each night for the happiness I've had in the past and if He should take me tomorrow, He 'a already given me more than so many will ever have. I'm in love with Life. By Vlcki Stavlg That was the last letter my brother wrote. He was killed early the next morning, shot acci- dentally by a sentry as he was bringing a patrol back to camp outside Pleiku. His name is now inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial, the black granite wall in Washington, D.C., that also bears the names of almost 50,000 others who died in Vietnam.

My mother went to see the memorial four years ago when it was dedicated during the National Salute to Vietnam Veterans. Dad stayed home in Calumet, more than a little afraid, I think, to face the grim reminder of what that war had cost him: his first-born child and what might have been. Early last summer, however, Dad announced that he was going to Washington to see the Vietnam Memorial. He asked me to go with him and Mom. I hesitated.

I was just starting a freelance writing business and, I reasoned, couldn't really afford to take the time or spend the money to go. What it really came down to, however, was that I was afraid, afraid not only of how I would react to seeing that wall, but of how it would affect Dad, a vibrant, yet vulnera- 41. of K5TP-cn. 5 Dy a coupie or snare points (percentage of sets in use) in the Nielsen tally and tied Channel 5 in the Arbitron survey. WCCO-Ch.

4 was as usual the 10 p.m. ratings leader. Channel 1 1 sales manager Elliott -Bass said that it's early to be setting new rates but that the station will attempt to raise the price of commercial time during its 10 p.m. newscast on the strength of the new ratings information. How much depends on what his competitors do, Bass said, and on the advertisers' reaction.

"October may not be considered a major sweep by our clients," Bass said. Channel 5 sales manager Tom Fee expressed a similar sentiment. He said Channel 5 had no intention of adjusting its 10 p.m. commercial rates. For Channel 5, the slip to third place is embarrassing, even though the margin was narrow.

Channel 5 has never had a newscast finish lower than second and was tied for first place with Channel 4 at 10 p.m. as recently as 1984. wall totally consumes me. My senses block out everything else, everything but that name Richard Robert Antonovich. My brother and my best friend." Vicki Stavig ii3LWiir.raninra.i.riir.KPriq mill.

inn. (Jt SjJS' iISf Vd I mJ" Exhibit blends state artists, Impressionism By Mary Abbe MartinStaff Writer The American Impressionist paintings that Harington Beard loved have gone from avant-garde to antique in the century since he opened his first art gallery on Nicollet Av. But the gallery, the oldest in Minneapolis, has kept faith with his enthusiasm for Impressionism and Minnesota artists, both of which are featured in the gallery's centennial show: "100 Years of Art in Minnesota," which continues through Nov. 29. "Mr.

Beard's Art Rooms," as people called the establishment when it opened in 1886 at 4th and Nicollet, moved eight times in the past century, slowly migrating down the mall to its present spot at 1112 Nicollet, opposite Orchestra Hall. The Beard Art Galleries still have the cozy elegance of a 19th-century salon where wallpaper, books and potted plants set the stage for a cascade of gilt-framed pictures. Covering the walls from floor to ceiling, the paintings are landscapes of such popular subjects as woodland glades, harbors, portraits and still lifes with fruit or flowers many of them in what could broadly be He builds 'star' quality into furniture Df you try to talk about influences with interior designer Jay Spectre, he'll talk about movies. He isn't trying to change the subject. The movies he saw as a youngster growing up in Kentucky and the movie people tie's known as an adult are the things that most influence his work.

"My influences were not architects," he said, speaking with a Southern twang that, he says, grows more pronounced when he's tired. "They were movie stars. I liked Gary Cooper in oh, God, what was the name of that film? By Ayn Rand? 'The And I liked Rita Hayworth in 'Gilda' and Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to They were my reality. Interior designers did not particularly interest me. "I knew Alfred Hitchcock very well, and Hitch used to say to me, 'Style is a form of I didn't mrtX p-A-r- Staff Photo by Tom Sweeney Gallery director Allen Bartlett, left, and owner Richard Beard Thomson at the Beard Art Galleries.

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