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Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 24

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C-2 TEE STATE JOUKVAL Sot, May 6. 1967 WMSB Highlights Fiedler, Boston Pops, To Present Concert After an absence of nearly 121 set for 10 pjn. Monday. It In cludes interviews with Dr. Timothy Leary, LSD apostle; Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy Magazine, beer-drinking motor-1 rican chants and original songs that blend Into the narrative of the play.

SCIENCE "Spectrum" follows three spe cially Mumped military jet air craft that flew to Argentina on Nov. 12, UM, to track an eclipse across the southern Atlantic on The Living Sun." Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Wednesday at 11:90 a.m. The aircraft were staffed by scientists from Los Alamos Sci entitle Laboratory, the Sandia Corp. In Albuquerque and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermoro, Calif.

The documentary follows the expedition as ft tracks the moon's shadow at 90,000 feet and 000 miles an hour. Dr. Arthur Cox. the expedi tion's chief scientist, explains the effects the sun's corona and solar wind have on earth's weather and communications. MUSK Coleman Blumfleld.

concert pianist and former artist-in-res- dence for the city of unt, is guest performer on "Recital Hall." Wednesday at 7 n.m. He devotes his program to "Pic tures at an Exhibition" by Mus- sorgsay. SONG AND DANCE MAN Geae Barry Is at his drheaalr best wkea the slags, eaares aad basts "Hefljasia Palace" at 0:90 sub. 8ataraay might Gaests tscksoe Mart SaaL Theodore BfkeL Jack E. Leaaard aad Laaa CaatreB.

Mid-Michigan Television News ft Gloria DeHaven, Paul Lynde ano Mrs. Adam Clayton Powell on Wednesday; Eddie Fisher and Flip Wilson on Thursday; and Cleveland Amory and the uejohn Sisters on Friday. Because of the Daylight Sav ing Tune fuss, Ch. 0 is pres ently unaoie to carry ine complete two hours of the new nightly "Las Vegas Show." This means that the portion seen locally may not include all of the scheduled guests. The guest list this week features Sally Ann Howes on Monday: Juliet Prowse and Anita O'Dav on Tuesday; Gieselle MacKenzie on Wednesday; the Nicholas Brothers and Edith Head on Thursday; and Dana Wynter, iiugn Brian and author Harold Robbins on Friday.

ABC WXYZ-TV, Detroit WJRT, mat CBS WJBK-TT, Detroit WEZO-TV, sUaasaaao WJTM-TY, usssktg QC WWTV, Cadillac NBC WWJ-TV, Detroit WNEM-TV, Bay CMy WOOD-TV, Graad Rapids wax-TV, Ji law, Stations reserve me right to make last moment changes. The Stat Journal publishes these changes when notified by the stations. years. "The Colgate comeay Hour" returns as a one-snot spe cial on NBC at 10 pjn. Thursday, preempting Dean Martin's hour.

The program was a regular weekly habit for millions from its debut 1050 until Its last telecast in 1955. The special edition features performers in their best routines. They are Edie Adams, Kaye Ballard, Shelley Berman, Phyllis Diller, Nan ette Fabray, Bob Newhart, Carle Reiner and Mel Brooks, Rowan and Martin, Nipsey Russell, Dick Shawn and Allan Sher man. "The Pursuit of Pleasure" on NBC at 10 p.m. Monday Is an exploration of America's i fund" philosophy and morality.

including the subjects of pornog raphy, narcotics, sexual free dom, nudity, semi-nudity and general promiscuity, sander- Vanocur hosts the special. which preemps "Run for Your Life." "The Old College Try" at p.m. Tuesday on CBS la a doc umentary examination of the efforts of high school graduates to get into colleges of their choice. "To Sleep. Perchance to Scream" is a new drama on Bob Hope Theater" at 9 n.m.

Wednesday. Ricardo Montalban, Joanne Dm, Pat Hingle and Lola Albright star In the story of a "private eye" whe uses the methods of a murdered detec tive to find the killer. Pope Paul VPs pilgrimage on May 19 to the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal will be carried live by NBC and ABC by way of Early Bird satellite. CBS has not yet decided whether to carry tne trip live. Jack Benny received the "En tertainer of the Year" Award this week from the International Radio and Television Society at the group's annual meeting hi new I or, city.

Bradford Diilman. who's lust completed an NBC-TV feature film in Hollywood about LSD, instructed his press agent not to issue any releases that he is flying" to tne East Coast. Dale Robertson of "Iron Horse" returned this week from entertaining troops in Vietnam and urged other entertainers to tour the war zone. "The morale of the troops is good, but it is never so high that ft couldn't be better," Robertson said. "A lot of the boys are homesick and would Just like to have someone from home to talk to." Sunday marks Kraft Foods' zvtn year as a TV sno The first telecast In 1047 was a play.

"Double Door." starring John Baragrey. It cost a mere $9,000 for time and talent and reached a potential audience of 92,000 set owners within a 50-1 mile radius of New York atv. Newcomer Mary Graver, who stars opposite Robert Goulet "Carousel" on Sunday, says Mtl. Im WVIUUun BUCOEBB story. I've gone through more auditions, tests and unota that didn't sell than I can remember.

i nave tne training. Now I need ine experience." The insurance Comnam- nf North America has cancelled its sponsorship of an NBC documentary. 'The Pnrailt ni Pleasure," because tho "cli mate" of its content la "un- suitaue for our selling message." -The program, which (anion the so-called "fun" morality, isl Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pop Orchestra in a spe cial concert. "Boston Pops II," recorded In Its entirety before a live audience at Symphony Hall, Boston, and presented Sunday at 1:30 pjn. on WUSB-TV (Ch 10), Michigan State University television.

Works performed are Les To readors from Bizet's "Carmen' Tales from tho Vienna Woods Waltses by Johann Strauss Brahms' Hungarian Dance. No. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture; selections from Leonard Bern-Stein's "West Side "The Typewriter" by Anderson, and "Green Berets" by Sadler Moore. Tho featured work of the con cert Is Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. performed by Yugoslavian bora pianist Eu gene IIMJIC.

Other WMSB highlights: EDUCATION At a ghetto school in Brook' tyn, "N.E.T. Journal" traces an experiment to improve slum ed ucatlon by using the facilities of universities on "The Way It Is," Sunday at 4:90 p.m. and Wednesday at noon. In September ISM, a major metropolitan university took on a major problem in secondary education the ghetto school. Backed by a Ford Foundation grant, New York University's Clinic for Learning focused its attention and its talent on Junior High School 57 in the Bedford- Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn The "N.E.T.

Journal" cameras follow this protect from its in ception through its current prog' ress. SEMINAR The second of two broadcasts of the "Winds of Change" few held at MSU features speakers at the symposium on people, events and the mass me dia, Sunday at 12:90 p.m. Speakers Include Dr. Everett Rogers, MSU, "The Mass Media and the People of Underdeveloped Nations''; Prof. Harold lilacs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Mass Me dia and Grain Dr.

Daniel Lemer, MIT, "The Mass Media and People of Develop-: big and F. Clifton White, president of F. Clifton White and Associates, "The Mass Media in Highly Developed Countries. DRAMA "N.E.T. Playhouse" presents "Sponono." a music-drama bv Alan Pa too, author of "Cry the Bewvea country," and Krishna bhah, Sunday at 11 p.m.

Tho original South African cast appear in the production, which was taped directly from the stage of New York's Corf Theater. Set In modern Johannesburg, "Sponono" concerns the poignant starch for understanding nerween a white man and a Negro boy. The play is based on several of Alan Paton's short stories, which are collected in Tales from a Troubled Land. Most of the cast performed in the world premiere of "Sponono" and Hwreo wim the play throughout South Africa. They perform colorful dances, traditional Af cyclists in Washington and mem bers of a sexual freedom group California.

NBC plans to put the program on as scheduled, although a new sponsor bad not been cured as of Friday. Thomas J. McDermott. a vice president of N. W.

Ayer Son, the insurance firm's ad vertising agency, said: we felt that the program very forcefully depicts a most serious problem facing our civilization, but we also felt that it was not the appropriate vehicle for selling insurance." 'The New Morality," a survey of students' religious be liefs, is a CBS special at 0 a.m. Sunday on Ch. 9 Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart are guests on "Password at pjn.

Monday Comedian Nipsey Russell and singer Lana Can- trell visit Red Skelton at 7:90 p.m. Tuesday Danny Kaye's rerun at p.m. Wednesday spotlights Leslie Uggams A salute to the songs of Rodgers and Hart is repeated by "ABC Stage 07" at 10 p.m. Thursday, with Bobby Darin, Petula Clark and Count Baste band Hank Bauer, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, is the sched uled guest on Friday's 'Today" show. Vets Cite: 'Heroes' It is not uncommon for ac tors who portray heroic TV cow boys to be made honorary sher iffs or admirals in the Nebraska Navy, and for TV comedians to receive equally perplexing Humanitarian of the Year" awards.

But who cites the actor cast in the role of a World War II POW like Bob Craine, star of "Hogan's Heroes?" Ex-POWs, of course. Crane recently was made an honorary "Krelgie," a term reserved for Americans captured and imprisoned by the Germans world war u. try American Ex-POWs Incorporated, a group of former POWs from World War Korea, and Vietnam. He also has been made an hon orary member of Ex-POW Diep- Association of Canada, Its 25th anniversary (of tho Dieppe raid of 1042) this year. "We watch and get many a laugh from your show," wrote Lloyd Rutherford, officer of the Dieppe veterans' group.

"You and your boys bring back many a memory." Crosby Holds Record Record Bine Crosbv. who holds the Hnllvwnnri Palace hrwtln? cham pionship, also holds the record for having sold more recoru-ings than any other artist Over 200 million of his records have been sold. "I could have sold more," be cracked recently, "but they told me it wouldn't kmc right if I went from ooor to door." "Formula for Arthritics" on Lansing's WJIM-TV (Ch. C) at 7 p.m. Tuesday explores arthri tis and Its related diseases, rheumatism and bursitis, and looks at tho progress made in treating these conditions.

The Kuesta are James J. Lightbody, M.D.. medical director of the Michigan Chapter of we Annntis oundation; Alfred B. Swanson, M.D orthopaedic surgeon currently Involved in studying the replacement of arthritic Joints, and Edwin M. Smith, M.D., associate professor in the Department or Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan Med ical School.

Host Hush Brenneman and the guests discuss the processes of these crippling diseases, treatments available for preventing and curing, effects of diet cli mate and surgery, and continu ing research programs. There's only one Tiger TV game scheduled this week, and that conies when Detroit visits the Indians Cleveland at 0:90 p.m. Wednesday. The topics on Joe Fyne's talk show at 11:15 p.m. tonight on en.

if are British policy on NBC May Sign Noel Coward It looks as if Noel Coward will be making a very Infrequent TV appearance la the musical version of Androcka and the Lion, which Richard Rodgers Is doing for NBC-TV next season. Set to appear with Coward Is British star Norman Wisdom. who was nominated for a Tony for his performance on Broad way mo musical -wanting nappy." North Vietnam, treatment of; Negroes and anti-American demonstrations in Saigon. Brace Fossum. sou coach at Michigan State university, is in terviewed on 'Spartan sportiite over Ch.

IS at 7 pjn. Monday. buck aiannews, weatherman for WOOD-TV (Ch. 8). inter rupted regularly scheduled pro grams with Information on tor nado sightings in Grand Rapids two weeks ago Friday.

When the all clear was sounded. Hat thews went home and found his garage leveled and his antique automooue aamagea. His dog house was blown 125 yards and his dog, unharmed, was still in side. When reporter Bob Maher of uetrott's WXYZ-TV (Ch. 7) was receiving an award from gov.

Romney at the recent Michigan Associated Press banquet the governor whispered to Maners wife, "Your husband is a real tiger when be goes after a story." Mrs. Maher replied. He's a real turn at borne. 100!" With a mischievous arm. Romney returned to the micro phone and repeated the exchange for tho entire ntherina.

Guests on sferv Grows show over Ch. at 4 pjn. this week incmoe iwcxy urmnano Milt Kamen on Monday; Victor Borge, Adam Wade and Selma Diamond on Tuesday; Henry Morgan, Genevieve aid London Leo on Wednesday: Jack Doug las and Reiko on Thursday; and Connie Stevens, Ron Harper and uooy Goooman on rrway. Agnes Moorenead is the co- host on the Mike Douglas show over Ch. 10 at 00 djil this week.

The attests Include Billv uranam. Jimmy Nelson and the row rresnmen aa Monday; van Johnson, Chad and Jeremy, and Art Vaa Damme on Tuesday:.

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