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7 1 JXt TheOflandoSentiod Jryf The master craftsman of the crossword puzzle, E-3 Thursday, May 27, 1982 'Eve' rescued a single self from life torn in 22 pieces By Laura Kavesh Noel Holston OF THE SENTINEL STAFF TELEVISION 1 rum of the Mental Health Association of Orange County. She is a small woman with a soft, Southern accent. She speaks easily even offhandedly about her illness: "dissociative reaction, multiple personality type." I didn't know how to be one person. It took three years for me to say I'm well. CHRIS SIZEMORE I I Call-letter change risky for station ittle-known fact: WDBO-' Channel 6's call letters stand for "Way Down By Orlando." Don't bother committing that bit of TV trivia to memory, however.

some dark, unreachable chamber of Sizemore's psyche. One a dominant personality was always an' amnesiac. Two could remember. Over the years, seven were artists, 10 were poets. One was left-handed, one was mute.

Some knew how to drive; others didn't. a driver went somewhere and a non-driver came out, I was in trouble," Size-more said.) One ate only strawberries. One spoke French. One was a shoplifter. When one was pregnant, two coexisting personalities continued their menstrual cycles.

Near the end of the brutal illness, the personalities changed five or six times a day, each announced by a headache, a shakiness, a retreat into darkness, a rapid fluttering of the eyes. Twenty years ago, when a personality named Eve Black tried to choke her baby with a cord, the illness was finally diagnosed. Nine years ago, after more than 20 years Please see EVE, E-4 The woman wears a lavender dress, a relic from the days of The Purple Lady, who would buy nothing else. Her jewelry is shaped like a turtle, acquired when The Turtle Lady seized her chaotic mind. There were 20 other personalities as well during the first four decades of Chris Sizemore's life.

Personalities with names that bespoke obsessions: The Bell Lady, The Banana Split Girl, The Virgin. Some of us knew her merely as Eve, for Size-more was the real-life woman upon whom the movie The Three Faces of Eve was based in 1957. She is whole now, one. There are no more days or years lost to the dominion of some unconquerable Others. No more terror.

Last week Sizemore, now 55, was in Orlando to speak at the spring fo From the time she was 2 years old, there were always three personalities, each unruly, uncontrollable, vying for time and space. When they "died," three more were born in i-' ANDREW HICKMANSENTINEL 'Three Faces of Eve' was based on Chris Sizemore's life. At 5:30 on the morning of Sunday, June 6, Channel 6 will be changing those call letters which it has had since it first went on the air July 1, 1954 to WCPX. i Which doesn't stand for any- thing. Not anymore, at least.

The CPX was originally supposed to designate Columbia Pictures (also known as Colpix). That company was going to absorb by merger the Providence, R.I.-based Outlet which owns Channel 6 and other TV and radio stations. But the Columbia-Outlet deal fell through. Why, then, is Channel 6 still making a call-letter change? The Federal Communication Commission places limits on the number of radio and TV stations a company can own. Columbia already owns several broadcast properties, and Outlet, in order to merge with Columbia, was going to have to divest itself of WDBO MAY ON WDBO KEEP THIS LOG ON YOUR RADIO AM 580 KC FM 92.3 MEG ON YOUR DIAL MONDAY SUNDAY WEDNESDAY IHUitJDAf FRIDAY SATURDAY News Farm Devotions Hillbilly Roundup UPAP New News; Melodist Melodies The Christophers St.

Luke's Day School News Farm Devotions Forest Service UPAP News News Perm Devotions Htllbilly Roundup --UPAP News News; Jamboree Devotions Farm Forum --UPAP News News Ferm Devotions Hillbilly Roundup UPAP Newt News Farm Devotions -Hillbilly Roundup -UPAP News Yawrt Patroh11 "rT Yawn Patrol Yawn Patrol Yawn Patrol Yawn Petrol' Yawn Patrol 4 Singing, Salesmen, Karamu Quarter Banners of Faith Christ-World 7 UPAP News CBS News 5 Bandstand CBS Banc CBS News Bandstand News- Bob Jones 1 Renfro Valley 800 UPAP News Adventist Hour UPAP News Yours Sincerely UP Your UPAP News Yours Sincerely Christian Science Musi ArnV C3 I Arthur Godfrey Arthur Godfrey Protestant Hour Church Of Air 101 Radio. When the merger didn't take place, Outlet, anticipating some future merger, went ahead and sold WDBO AM and FM. And the radio stations, because they predate Channel 6 got first dibs on the call letters WDBO. (The AM station dates back to 1924 see story on this page.) Channel 6, after considering 'other options, decided to stick 1st Presb. Church Arthur Godfrey 11! WDBO's first employee, Harold P.

Danforth poised at the mike in the station's original headquarters at Rollins College. The station's programming guide dates back to 1954. Arthur Godfrey M. Melod'" Ro- M. Melodies Rosemary The Leading Question UPAP Newt N.

Melodies Helen T' 12 Howard Smith George Herman Newt Jwith WCPX, which was consid- ered easy to say and remember and worked well in graphics. If this is confusing, so is the sit Station WDBO 58 years on your radio dial uation mannei iaces. inanging "sail letters is a venture fraught -with risk, if only temporarily, because it can lead to accidental misreDOrtine bv viewers keeping By Christopher Evans OF THE SENTINEL STAFF diaries during the Nielsen and Ar-bitron ratings "sweeps." It was in tninl that WDBO-AM back in 1924. The station initially broadcast from a frequency of 1250 kilocycles and had a first-year budget of $600, $250 of which went to its only employee, Harold P. Danforth.

The late Danforth eventually was named president of the station's owning corporation in 1950. In 1925, WDBO-AM's signal was picked up by a ship in the Pacific Ocean, 2,200 air miles from Winter Park. The station's wattage was increased to 100, then to 500. But on June 17, 1926, Rollins, because Please see WDBO, E-10 Rollins professor E. F.

Wineburg, whose engineering class had started the station as a project, had talked on the merits of a Rollins education. "Taps" was played on a bugle for a sign-off. And WDBO, whose call letters Wineburg chose to stand for "Way Down By Orlando," had become Florida's sixth radio station. And. Central Florida's first.

Today, on WDBO-AM's 58th birthday, the station bills itself as "The Great 58" because it operates on the 580-kilocycle frequency. Its address is 58 Ivanhoe Blvd. But the number 58 meant nothing to Sprague sent out a plea to "anybody who can hear He offered a box of oranges (from the Gentile Brothers Packing House) to anyone who would send a postcard to verify that the signal was being received. "It took a few days, but they got cards from as far away as Orlando and Apopka," said Ben Aycrigg, formerly a WDBO-AM announcer and now special projects director for WDBO-TV. "I even think they got one from Sanford." Before that first broadcast 58 years ago was finished, the Rollins Men's Glee Club had sung "Rollins Goes Rolling Along." At 9 a.m.

on May 27, 1924, a mighty 50-watt signal beamed out of a $318 frame building that sat alongside the tennis courts at Rollins College. "Station WDBO, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, broadcasting on a wavelength of 240 meters, will now begin their first program Just one minute, please After the sign-on, announcer Dean Protection from the protectors A libertarian lampoons regulations that meant well By Al Martinez LOS ANGELES TIMES fruit. I am recommending that it be so labeled." Lowdermilk, 33, seems like a normal man. He is an air-traffic controller at Santa Barbara Airport, has a wife and two children and, along his windowsill, little ceramic angels. Mocking- birds sing outside his pleasant, tree-shaded ONTECITO, Calif.

Dale Lowdermilk is sitting in his home on Montecito's Lemon Grove Lane, south of Santa Bar home. Then why all this unnatural concern with the killer banana? "There are warning labels on cigarettes," he says, "and the government is considering allergy warning labels on bubble bath and vanilla ice cream. Why not bananas?" It's this way. Lowdermilk is founder, president and full board of directors of the National-Organization Taunting Safety and Fairness Evv erywhere (NOT SAFE), a title that he says; Please see SAFETY, E-5 bara, tapping with one finger on a banana. "Do you realize," he is asking, "what you have when you have an empty banana?" He leans forward.

"A banana peel! And we all know what happens when you step on a banana peel!" He stands, frowning, and circles the banana, on which he has written the word "caution." "This," says Lowdermilk, "is a dangerous WUU LllIB 1,1 111U1U bllCb U1IEUUIVI chose to make the switch in June. The May sweeps will be over, and though another audience survey is taken in 'July, there won't be another major survey period until November. By that time, Channel 6 hopes to have WCPX Firmly ingrained in viewers' minds. An extensive publicity cam- paign with just such a goal is in the works. Channel 6 promotions manager Jack Tinsley says the station has four call-letter-change promotional spots ready to start airing June 1.

Local celebrity-impersonators playing James Cag-ney, Laurel and Hardy, Humphrey Bogart and Clark Cable, appear in WCPX spots keyed to the stars' most famous movie roles. Besides plugging WCPX, the spots will invite viewers to send in postcards noting their awareness of the call-letter changeover, Tinsley said. Every weeknight at 7:30 for four weeks starting Monday, June 21, one of those letters will be drawn on the air, live, and a prize awarded. "We'll be giving away six one-day cruises, six 19-inch televisions, six dinners for two at Mai-son Jardin, and six $500 shopping sprees," Tinsley said. "Hopefully, the contest will give everybody a reason to know what our new call letters are.

If we just did a bunch of billbdards, the awareness would take longer, I felt. We needed something people could participate in." Despite these efforts, Tinsley said, Channel 6 will probably suffer some in the ratings because of the call letter change. "The market is fragmented pretty significantly now. Any other confusion we add to it is not going to help our situation. But some consideration is given to this type of thing by Arbitron and Nielsen.

They will allow WDBO or WCPX to be entered in rating diaries through the second (audience survey) book after the change." TV listings, E-8k GARY FRIEDMANLOS ANGELES TIMES Lowdermilk says he's trying to show how rules have gotten out of hand. Products that sizzle, then fizzle more," replied a company spokesman at Campbell-Taggert in Dallas when asked what happened to its hole-less bagels. The spokesman, who preferred to remain anonymous, said only that Knot-a-Bagels were sold "for not very long" before being pulled off the shelves. The folks who made Tan Amin, the vitamin that offered a money-back guarantee to anyone who still looked pale after 50 days, blamed their product's failure on consumer prejudice. "With all the bad publicity that the tanning products have gotten over the years, people just associated ours that that," Please see PRODUCTS, E-S Bagel, which is a bagel-like bread shaped in a pretzel knot rather than in a circle.

And except in certain cities in the upper Middle West, all of us have been denied Tan Amin, a vitamin supplement that purportedly gives your skin a tanlike healthy glow. These are just three of the hundreds of food and health-related products sold in selected test-market cities in the last two years. As it turned out, they didn't play well in Peoria, or Binghamton, or Fort Wayne or Tucson, and died a slow, unceremonious death without most of us knowing about them. Last year more than 1,300 new products (including additions to By Bryan Miller Smither's Love Boats, which were introduced in late 1980 by the Alberto-Culver Co. of Melrose Park, 111., are one example.

They were chocolate-covered wafers in the shape of 3-inch-square boats and were marketed as edible dessert dishes 'for ice cream or pudding. "They were dark chocolaty sort of things," said a company spokesman, Mary K. Oswald. "They just didn't sell as expected. They were definitely a gourmet-type item." Most companies do not like to mourn their recently deceased items, preferring instead to talk about new products.

"I don't know what happened, we just don't sell them any existing lines) were introduced in the United States, according to New Product News, a marketing industry newsletter published by Dancer Fitzgerald Sample in New York. The success rate is thought to be low, probably well below 25 percent, although there is no precise way to measure it. "When you are talking about success you are talking about profits, and companies are not willing to talk about that in public," said Marty Friedman, the editor of New Products News. Most new products are dropped on the market like water on a hot grill they make a big splash, sizzle with publicity for a short time, then disappear. NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Unless you have spent time recently in Binghamton, N.Y., chances are you've never eaten a Smither's Love Boat.

If you have no ties with Dallas, you probably don't know about Knot-a- 3T 7.