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(Chicago (Tribune TV Today MetroSouth Central 10 Home Garden Sunday, July 2, 1972 Hollywood Today Mod Peggy Gets To Do Her Thing Today's Highlights SPECIAL EVENTS 8:00 a. in. 5 A Quiet Language for a Noisy World. The first program In a 10-part series on sign language. 12 noon 5 Meet the Press.

Newsmen Interview Richard E. Neustadt. acting chairman for the Democratic Plat-iwm Committee for the 1972 Democratic National Convention. 12 noon 11 World Champion Chess Tournament. Simulated' coverage of the Borris Spassky-Bobby Fischer tournament in Iceland.

12:30 p. m. 7 Issues and Answers. Newsmen interview Sen. Edmund Muskie 10:00 p.

m. 11 The Gooks. Pierre Gaisseau directed this documentary on the work of a small team of doctors trying to help the innocent victims of the Viet Nam war. SPORTS 12:30 p. m.

9 Bascbal). Cubs vs. Pirates in Pittsburgh. 1:15 32 Baseball. White Sox vs.

Minnesota Twins in White Sox Park. Double header. 2:00 p. m. 2 A.

A. V. International Champions. Western Hemisphere vs. U.

S. A. National Boxing team and A. A. U.

National Men's Decathlon Championships. 2:30 p. in. 5 World Championship Tennis. The Holten classic from St.

Louis, Mo. 3:30 p. m. 2 Tennis Classic. Marty Riessen vs.

Roy Em-merson. 3:30 p. ni, 7 U. S. Women's Open.

Coverage of the 20th annual U. S. Women's Open at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N. Y. 7:00 p.

m. 32 Roller Game of the Week, Thunderbirds vs. Brooklyn Devils. DRAMA 8:00 p. in.

11 Masterpiece Theater: The Cold Comfort Farm Comedy about an Englishwoman who goes to visit her country cousins and tries to change their way of living. Hour By Hour young girls in high schools all over the country who try to look like her. Does she feel a certain responsibility towards these kids who have obviously been influenced by her? "Naturally, I'm flattered by the fact that it happened but I don't think anyone should model herself after any other person. These girls are just stifling their own personality by doing so and I believe they should do their own thing whatever it is." Peggy has actually lived the life most high-school and shop-office girls dream about all the time rich, beautiful, and famous. They would all give anything to be in Peggy's shoes.

But what they don't realize is that' pretty Peggy is often lonely and alone. Many a Saturday night, she just sits in her little house in Beverly Hills, washes her hair, and listens to records. Sometimes she goes over to Visit her close friend Jack Nicholson. "Los Angeles is the worst place in the world for a single girl, especially a single girl in this business. There is no center to life here, the way there is in New York.

There is no pace, no beat to life. "And the men out here are spoiled. They expect too much too easily and they don't believe in romance. Most of the guys in Hollywood are either married or jerks or both," she says. Peggy has gone out with many famous names in the past, including Terence Stamp and Paul McCartney.

For quite a while she was involved with record producer Lou Adler but the romance ended about a year and a half ago. There is no one she is particularly interested in at the moment, which is just as well, because Peggy feels she's not yet ready for marriage. "I used to think I would marry by the time I was 25 but now I've decided to wait till I'm 30. I don't really believe a marriage contract is that important. It's much more important to have a good solid relationship with two people.

But I realize the necessity of marriage for children and for society." You wouldn't expect Mod Squad's Julie Barnes to come up with such a square statement, would you? But Peggy comes from a close family. Her father, Harold Lipton, is vice president and chief counsel for National General Corporation and her mother, Rita Lipton, is a noted artist, who recently had a show in Rome. Mrs. Lipton is very attractive and looks young enough to be Peggy's sister. To her parents' dismay, Peggy lived for a year in a Topango Canyon hippie commune, "probably a reaction to ail the rich guys who'd been taking me out back east," she admits.

Peggy grew up in New York and was a leading Manhattan model during her high school days. She attended the Professional Children's School in New York and got hooked Continued on page 2, col, 3. BY NORMA LEE BROWNING Peggy Lipton, who was' born with a gold spoon in her mouth, could easily buy a cool dozen of them with 'all the loot she has made from TV's Mod Squad. She is now into the fifth season of the successful series about young undercover' agents and at 23, is earning approximately $10,000 a week, 24 weeks a year. "Fame is soothing to the ego and it isn't illegal," says Peggy.

Even tho she's happy about her fame and financial" success, she is the first to admit that Mod Squad doesn't provide the greatest acting challenge in the world. "After playing the same thing for so long, you kind of stop trying because it's so easy. Everyone in a TV series gets trapped by the role he plays. But it's worse not to work, to be unemployed. It would be worse if I were on die other side of that fence out there, looking in," she said, referring to the fence around the 20th Century Fox studios where Mod Squad is filmed.

It wasn't exactly easy getting together with the young. lady. Mod Squad is shot all over town and at a moment's notice, Peggy is called to go to downtown Los Angeles or to the racetrack or out to the San Fernando Valley. But we finally caught up with her during a lunch break at 20th Fox. She was wearing jeans and a tie-dye T-shirt.

She sounded tired from the long hours and the running around. But in a way, she had asked for it. She'd been bugging the show's producer to find some scripts with more for her to do. "I really didn't want 'to just take the money and run. I wanted more to do on the show.

So now the producers are planning each episode to feature one of us tthe other two Mod Squaders are Michael Cole and Clarence Williams III as the central characters. So every three weeks, I'll be doing my thing." There's only one thing wrong with her more -work schedule she's on constant call and can't make plans of her own. And it upsets her when she has to cancel out of something at the last minute as she did with a charity fashion show last week. "It makes me look like the heavy," she says. When Mod Squad first went on the air, it took only a few weeks for it to become a hit, and it has been up high in the ratings ever since.

Did Peggy expect the series to be the success it was? "I didn't expect it to be as quick a success. But we all figured it would go, because we felt we had the right show and the right subject and the right chemistry among us," she said. Any one who has seen Peggy on Mod Squad knows she has the "now" look the honeyrblonde the slimhess, the way she There are thousands of Peggy Lipton stars as Julie Barnes on Mod Squad, Tuesdays at 6:30 p. m. on ABC channel 7.

WGN channel 9 presents a James Cagney film festival tonight thru Friday at 10:30. Among memorable moments from Cagney's career are his portrayals of toughs, and was he ever tougher than in "Public Enemy" Thursday when he mashed a grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face? Cagney was really a song-and-dance man as proved when he won an Oscar for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in "Yankee Boodle Dandy" bottom left airing Tuesday. An old-fashioned Cagney is seen in Wednesday's film, "The Strawberry Blonde" bottom center with Olivia De Havilland. Cag-.

ney didn't play in too many Westerns but he's the hero in "The Oklahoma Kid" bottom right, airing Friday. Other Cagney. films, include "Each Dawn I Die," presented tonight, and "Angels with, Dirty Foces" on Monday night. 6 a. m.

4 p. m. 6:40 5 Minutes to Live By 9 4:00 Ivanhoe 2 6:45 News 9 Wagon Train tR 9 6:50 Thought for the Day 2 Meek the Pressure 26 6:55 News 2 Baseball 32 6:57 WGN Editorial 9 Gospel Singing Jubilee 44 7 4:30 Animal World 2 O. 111. Golf with the Proa 5 7:00 Tom and Jerry 2 Cartoon Corner 3 p.

Ml. 7:25 Reflections 7 5:00 Campaign '72 2 7:30 Groovio Goolies 2 Comment 5 Consultation 7 What's Your Housing I. Q.f 7 Land of Hope and Glory 9 Behind the Lines 1 1 8 Bob Lewandowski 26 0. IN. unee Bob's Philline 8:00 Dusty's Treohouse 2 Hour 44 A Quiet Language for a 5:30 News Garriek Utley 5 Noisy World 5 Once Upon a Wheel 7 Jubilee Showcase 7 Biography 9 Three Score and Memo 9 A Woman's Piste 1 1 Day of Discovery 32 8:15 Mass for Shut-Ins 9 p.

171. 8:30 Magic Door 2 6:00 News Julian Barber 2 Memorandum 5 Wild Kingdom 5 INK 7 Survival 7 Faith for Today 32 Cromie Circle 9 Showcase 44 Electric Company 1 1 9 Italian Variety 26 "1. Summer Sports 44 9:00 Lamp Unto My Feet 2 6:30 Sunday Night Movie 2 Some of My Best Friends 5 "A Fine Madness." Reluctant Dragon 7 Walt Disney 5 Heritage of Faith 9 This Is Your Life 7 Expression of Soul 26 Championship Fishing 32 Hour of Power 32 That Good Ole Nashville Oldtime Gospel Hour 44 Music 44 9:30 Look Up and Live 2 -j Everyman 5 r' Here Come the 7:00 FBI tR 7 Doublcdoekers 7 People to People 9 Issues Unlimited 9 Sesame Street 11 ID a Hellenic Theater 26 IU d. 171. Roller Game of the Week 32 10:00 Camera Three 2 Jim Conway 44 Sunday in Chicago 5 7:30 Jimmy Stewart 5 Bullwinkle 7 Taylor Talks to the People 9 Secret Agont IR 9 Oral Roberts 32, p.

III. New Life in the 8:00 Bonanza 5 New Tostamont 44 Sunday Night Movie 7 10:30 Old time Religion 2 "Modesty Blaise." Make a Wish 7 Hee Haw! 9 Gospel Truth 26 Masterpiece Theater: The Morning Western 32 Cold Comfort Farm 1 1 "A Man Called Gringo." Tony Mitchell 26 This Is the Life 44 Evelyn Echols Travel World 44 I 8:30 Cade's County 2 I I A. 111. Lithuanian TV 26 1 1 :00 Newsmakers 2 Session: Today's Sound 44 Directions 7 8:55 News 32 Death Valley Days 9 Wrestling Champions 26 171. Sunny Vetter 44 9:00 Bold Ones tR 5 1 1 :30 Face tho Nation 2 Lawrence Welk 9 Of Cabbages and Kings 7 Chinchilla Ranching 26 Bat Masterson 9 Lloyd Bridges' Water Movie Game 44 World 32 nnnn Warren Freiberg's llUUtl Psychic World 44 12:00 Heads Up 2 9:30 David Frost Revue 2 Meet the Press Kathryn Kttlman 26 Cartoon Corner 9 I ri World Champion IU 171.

Chess Tournament 11 10:00 News Julian Barber 2 Turin Acevedo 26 News Floyd Kelber 5 Roller Derby 32 News Jack Taylor 9 Bob Luce Wrestling 44 The Gooks 1 1 12:20 Lead Off Man 9 Invitation to Openess 26 12:30 Patchwork Family 2 Candid Camera 32 Sports Challenge 5 Big Story Mary Jane Issues and Answers 7 Odell 44 Baseball 9 10:15 News Dan Rather 2 10:27 WGN Editorial 9, 1 P- 171. 10:30 Name of the Game RJ 2 1:00 Suspense Theater IR 5 Sunday Tonight 5 Afternoon Movie I 7 News John Drury 7 "Fort Apache." WGN Presents 9 Spirit ol Grooce 26 "Each Dawn I Die." On-Dock Circle 32 This Is the Life 26 Rex Humbard 44 Movie 32 1:15 Baseball 32 "Master Stroke." 1:30 To Tell the Truth 2 10:45 News -BUI Beulel 7 10:55 Paul Harvey 44 2 p. m. II 2:00 A. A.

U. International II p. IN. Champions 2 .11:00 Movie II 7 Sports Action Profile 5 "Something of Value." Malcolm College 24 Firing Line 1 1 Nows of the Psychic World 44 After 19 2:30 World Championship nil CI I i. Tonnl.

12:00 Movie 2 Rollln' On the River 44 "Dakota Inning 9 D.v Frost 5 12:10 News Carl Greysn 9 3 D. ID. 12:30 Consultation 32 3-00 Curtis Cup Golf 7 12:40 Cromie Circle 9 Haiel 9 1:00 News 32 Al Benson 1 :20 Movie II 7 Soul Street tR) "Soldiers Three." 3:30 Tennis Classic 2 1:50 Late Report 2 U. S. Women's Open 7 1:55 Meditation 2 I Love Lucy 2:10 Up-to-the Minute News 9 3:45 Baseball Report 32 2:13 Five Minutes to Live By I "i i.