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Journal and Courier Karen Moyars, Life Times Editor People Sunday, March 29, 1987 Wiesenthal meets friends from his past NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was reunited with a fellow former prisoner who witnessed his suicide attempt in captivity and an American soldier who released him from a death camp at the end of World War II. ft -v 4 i iS 'S wiesentnai Box office announced that Wiesenthal's 1967 memoirs, The Murderers Among Us, will be made into a movie with filming to begin this spring. Wiesenthal met Izak Lehman the night he was taken to a prison after a brief escape from another camp. En route to the prison, Wiesenthal slit his wrists.

Freedom came in May 1945 when Army Col. Richard Seibel liberated Wiesenthal from the Austrian death camp Mauthausen, which was the last death camp liberated. Since gaining his freedom, Wiesenthal has devoted his life to hunting down those who took part in the methodical killing of six million Jews. WBAA marks 65th Durwood Kirby started career here By Byron Par-vis Journal and Couner Fifty-five years ago, a young man from Indianapolis attending Purdue University decided to trade a career as a mechanical engineer for that of a radio announcer. For Durward Kirby, now retired and living in southwest Florida, it was the best decision he ever made.

It eventually led to a career in radio, motion pictures, television and the New York stage. On the occasion of the 63th anniversary of WBAA, the educational radio station at Purdue and the oldest radio station in Indiana, Kirby recalled some of the interesting events in those early days of radio. Kirby began his radio career at the station in 1931. "Nineteen thirty-one. I can't believe it's been that long," he said from his home.

"First of all, I made the whopping salary of 10 cents an hour. I called my father in Indianapolis and told him I had a job at the station. He was pleased and said that would help pay my college expenses. Then I told him how much I was making and he laughed. "Then I told him that I was giving up mechanical engineering.

He didn't laugh, but I had made the decision that radio was the way to go." At the time Kirby worked at WBAA, it was located on the third floor of the Electrical Engineering Building on Northwestern Avenue. "One day I walked into the station and asked for an audition. The program director was a Purdue history professor. I told him I wanted to be an announcer, so he handed me a history book off the shelf and told me to read. I read the page and he hired me.

1 -a i Doobie Brothers follow Wonder's lead By The Associated Press THE BAKKERS: Tammy and the Rev. Jim are the center of upheaval in the world of big-time, television evangelism. LOS ANGELES -The Doobie Brothers have joined singer Stevie Wonder in deciding not to play in Arizona to protest Gov. Evan Mecham's decision to rescind a state holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The group decided to play a planned reunion benefit concert in Las Vegas, TCa try ff Ufim ami Tammmy Wonder muS instead of Phoenix, Ariz.

Mecham's spokesman says that the governor was only doing his duty to rescind the holiday ordered by the previous administration. The benefit for a San Francisco hospital for the elderly is scheduled for May 21. The group has not appeared together since 1982. Mrs. yon Trapp dies at the age of 82 Jessica Hahn Jerry Falwell Marriage wasn't Ozzie and Harriet STOWE, Vt.

-Maria von Trapp, whose escape from the Nazis inspired the Sound of Music, died "In those days we had a' limited license and a 1000-watt station. We were still basically experimental, and we were only permitted to broadcast two hours a week between 7 D.m. Saturday at the age of 82. Mrs. von Trapp was hospitalized Wednesday at the Copley Hospital in Morrisville for gangrene of the small bowel along with They separated once and came close to calling it quits.

After reconciling, they felt so good about it all that they set up a marital counseling center at Heritage USA, the religious theme park that Bakker ran before resigning from PTL March 19. "A lot of people say, 'Don't air your dirty laundry in Tammy Bakker said of the incident. "But my laundry's been cleaned by the Lord." Tammy Faye Bakker claimed a close personal relationship with the Lord. As a girl growing up around International Falls, 10-year-old Tammy Faye on the air. It didn't seem to bother hymn-singing Tammy, 46, and 47-year-old Jim.

They said they had the Lord. And they had each other. Or did they? Recent news accounts and some not so recent writings indicate that the Bakkers are not the Ozzie and Harriet couple many of their TV-watching faithful knew. Like many others, Jim and Tammy have found the path to marital success to be peppered with snares and pitfalls. They have argued over the years about everything from Tammy's wigs (Jim said they were Satan's devices and at first refused her permission to wear them) to Jim's long hours (late nights and evident attractiveness to women).

By Richard Willing Gannett News Service The joke made it all the way to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson show the other night: Tammy Faye Bakker wakes up in a detox center. Eyes silted over with waterproof mascara, she looks at herself in the mirror. "My God!" she cries. "How long have I looked like this?" They're making jokes on national TV and elsewhere these days about Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker. Faithful of the PTL Club, from which they have just departed, don't like it much.

But others have always laughed at Jim and Tammy Faye and her propensity for bursting into tears Von Trapp See BAKKERS. Page C2 heart and diabetic problems. Mrs. von Trapp was 33 when she fled her native Austria in 1938 with her children and her husband, the late Baron Georg von Trapp. Their story was dramatized in a book, play and Academy Award-winning movie.

The Trapp Family Singers toured Europe and the United States for several years before settling in Vermont, where the mountains and people reminded them of Austria. Jarvik will marry 'Parade' columnist Demonination will meet with Bakker's successor Si date, said Saturday that the so-called holy Dec. 6, 1980 )PRINGFIELD, Mo. Assemblies WASHINGTON Evangelist Jerry Falwell, who has taken control of the PTL Kirby (1951) and 8 p.m. each Monday and Friday.

Kirby said each announcer there were four on the staff had their own 15-minute programs: "I got to know everyone in the La-fayctte community who could sing, tell jokes or play an instrument. I often had Al Stewart's Glee Club perform on the show." He said they used the old carbon microphones. "I wish I had one now. You had to hit them three or four times in order to get the molecules going around inside to make them work. That was fun." Kirby told about the DX longdistance programs: "We would go on the air between 1 a.m.

and 5 a.m. at least once a month. After playing a song, we would say This is WBAA, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Then we asked people to send us cards to tell us where they heard us. We then would send them return cards with our call letters in large type- They would usually Easte them on the walls of their ome." Kirby left Purdue and the station in June of 1932.

He went to See KIRBY. Page C2 war among TV evangelists has been overplayed in the news media. "It is my estimation that the flap is essentially behind us," Robertson said, referring to the controversy about Bakker's resignation. "I think there was one person who was out of line." of God officials who are investigating TV preacher Jim Bakker plan to meet this week with his successor, who has come under fire for arranging a settlement for a woman who had a sexual encounter with Bakker. The Rev.

Richard Dortch, who became president of the PTL ministry after Bakker resigned March 19, reportedly was a principal in negotiating a $265,000 settlement for Jessica Hahn. Bakker and Dortch both resigned from the Assemblies of God on March 19, but the Pentecostal denomination has the option of dismissing a minister rather than accepting a resignation. a MONROE, La. Pat Robertson, an evangelist and GOP presidential candi at Bakker request, persisted raising money he couldn't spend for a famine relief operation in Sudan that never got started, U.S. News and World Report said Saturday.

"The story is absolutely false," Falwell said Saturday night in Lynchburg, Va. The magazine, citing internal documents of Falwell's Moral Majority organization and unidentified sources, reported that more than $3.2 million was raised between January 1935 and February 1986 to establish a famine-relief effort in the Sudan but that only about $300,000 was spent there. PARK CITY, Utah Artificial heart inventor Robert K. Jarvik says he'll marry the smartest person in the world, Parade magazine columnist Marilyn Mach vos Savant. Mach vos Savant, 36, whose IQ was measured at 230 on the Stanford-Binet i ROCHESTER, N.Y.

The evangelist who brought Bakker together with a young woman for what became a sexual encounter says he has been been tortured with guilt. "I am guilty," John Wesley Fletcher told about 500 people at Faith Temple. Fletcher, a traveling evangelist from Oklahoma City, said he's been bothered since he introduced Bakker and Hahn in a hotel room in Clearwater Beach, on Associated Press Jarvik scale, writes the magazine's "Ask Marilyn" column. The couple said the wedding probably will be in August. Madison's estate opened to public What's the biggest test for married couple? John Norberg Journal and Courier ORANGE, the home of fourth President James Madison, has been opened to the public under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic -Preservation.

The opening of the estate where Madison, the father of the Constitution, spent his boyhood and is A In our enlightened society, much is made about men and women being basically the same. They can do the same jobs, like being doctors. They are both equally able to dislike and avoid certain jobs, like housework. Women can be architects and men can be babysitters. But in spite of all this, men and women are still different and these differences should not be minimized.

For instance, women generally like the color pink and men don't. I know a guy who's getting married this summer, and his fiancee has been telling people the colors they plans to have in their apartment. "The bedroom is going to be mauve," he told me the other day. "You're kidding," I said. "No, mauve.

I think it sounds nice. It paneling and moose heads. They get along fine, but they live in different houses. I know another couple who are planning to redecorate their house. "So far, we've reached agreement on one thing," he said.

"We're going to paint the ceilings white." "Well, that's a start," I said. "How long have you two been debating about all this?" "It'll be five years next month," he said. "The way I figure it, by the time we agree on what we want to do, it'll be time for us to move to a retirement home in Florida. Actually, the more we talk about redecorating, the less I'm interested in doing it. That's the way it always goes.

Nothing will make your house look so good, so fast, as considering redecorating it. husbands and wives shouldn't try to do together. They shouldn't try to balance a checkbook together. They shouldn't try to shop together. And they shouldn't try to redecorate together.

Redecorating is a real test for a marriage. Before any young couple is allowed to marry while they still have stars in their eyes they ought to be locked in a room together and forced to reach an agreement about what color to paint it. People consider religion before they get married. They consider politics. They consider how many children they each want and where they'd like to live.

And then they get married and find out one of them likes Swedish modern and the other is into American colonial antiques. I know a couple where she's into off-white colors and glass and he's into dark Madison. "Don't you know what mauve is," I said. "Mauve is pink. Mauve is a word women invented so they could paint things pink and tell their husbands that it was some other color.

You're falling for the oldest trick in the book. Do you want a pink bedroom? How are you going to feel lying on the bed watching Monday Night Football in a pink bedroom?" Well, I guess all is fair in love, war, and choosing a color to paint the walls. Actually, there are several things buried, coincides with the 200th anniversary celebration of the Constitution. Public tours began March 16. The trust took possession of the 55-room mansion in 1983 in accord with the terms of the previous owner's will.

The house was built between 1755 and 1765. During the 57 years Madison lived there, he did extensive remodeling. sounds modern..