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Karen Moyars, Life Times Editor People- mi -u m.T n. -n TrT!" Ti "'i Thursday, July 23, 1987 Network buys out Nattuiure's dodk strikes semmer i i -y Lujack's contract CHICAGO Capital Cities-ABC will buy out the remainder of disc jockey Larry Lujack's 12-year, $6 million contract in exchange for an agreement that bars him from working for competitors, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday. Lujack declined comment on the report, but his lawyer, Saul Foos, told the newspaper, "Cap Cities is not displeased in any way with Larry Lujack's performance on the air or with him personally." Lujack signed the contract in 1934. Norman Schrutt, president of the Capital Cities-ABC-owned WLS-AM and WLS-FM, also declined comment. Lujack, 47, once had an audience estimated at more than 1 million a week as the morning disc jockey for the stations.

After a decade, he exercised a contract option and moved to afternoons in 1986, but was in 18th place in the latest Arbitron ratings. Rose Kennedy marks her 97th birthday HYANNIS PORT, Mass. Rose Kennedy turned 97 Wednesday and though she is confined to a wheelchair and at times not entirely lucid, relatives say she is still the spiritual center of the Kennedy family. "She's 97 years old, and she still sets a very, very strong ex 7 Kennedy ample for this family. It's wonderful," her daughter, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, said.

A private Mass was to be held at the Kennedy compound Wednesday, according to Marc O'Connor, a spokesman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Boston. O'Connor said Kennedy was sending 97 roses to his mother. Kennedy, Mrs.

Shriver and other members of the Kennedy family celebrated the matriarch's birthday Sunday at her Cape Cod home with a white sugar cake and Irish songs. Collins gave Holm $20,000 a month J- v. 1 Kit i in time with I jr ft. -f the season Northern Crown, is directly overhead at 10 p.m. "It's a little semicircle of stars that's easv to see," Misajet says.

Look up, facing south, and it's a smile. Face north, tilting your head back, and it's a frown. You also can see the spring constellation of Leo the Lion a backward question-mark shape setting in the west. But the center piece of the summer sky, high in the east at 10 p.m., is the Summer Triangle, made up of three bright stars from different constellations: Deneb, from Cygnus the Swan; Vega, from Lyra; and Al-tair, from Aquila. As we get into August, Misajet says, the Summer Triangle will appear to move slightly toward the western horizon.

By August, too, Leo will have disappeared below the western horizon. Gannett News Service there are plenty of accommodations in nearby Lawton, or in the Texas cities of Wichita Falls and Vernon, across the nearby border. Besides ceremonies and dinners for the World War II Air Force guys, the reunion will feature a fly-in of antique, classic and experimental aircraft If you want more information about the reunion, call 405-335-2314. The July issue of Car and Driver magazine has a photo feature on personalized license plates that folks dream up for their cars. Among them is one on the car of Dr.

Norman S. Marks of Lafayette. His plate reads: VZECTME. We'll allow you to Insects, flowers arrive Earth's position in the sky determines nature's rhythms By Barbara S. Rothschild Gannett News Service If you blinked, you may have missed the 17-year cicadas, those red-eyed monsters that have been obscuring the other mysterious workings of nature this season.

In some areas of the country, the cicadas, mistakenly called locusts by the Pilgrims, emerged in June after growing underground since 1970, mated and died. So forget cicadas. Summer is bringing with it so many other phenomena you'll become absolutely buggy trying to take them all in. Phenomenology, often shortened to phenology, is the study of the inter-dependency of living things. Phenologists can't always explain why nature works the way it does, but they know it's keeping time on a specialized clock.

Insects are very predictable signs of summer because they are all extremely temperature sensitive. When the temperature's warm enough, they hatch. It's that simple. Every year, summer is heralded not by cicadas, but by katydids. You know them.

"They're the ones who sit on bushes and sing, 'Katy did, she did, she says Richard James, an ecologist at the Schuylkill Valley Na larth's position in the summer sky is part of what determines the rhythms of the season the interdependent cycles of its birds, insects and flowers. But the night sky itself makes a distinctive summer picture. "In the summertime, the moon goes low in the sky. The sun is high in the sky, and that makes the outdoors veryr very dark," Philadelphia ecologist Richard James says. All the better to see the summer constellations.

"There aren't as many spectacular stars in the summer as in winter, but there are more to see," says Laura Hammonds Misajet, a specialist at Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. That's because in summertime, we're facing the center of our Milky Way, galaxy. In winter, we're looking at its edge. In July, Corona Borealis, the vT" ture Center, a 400-acre tract on the western edge of Philadelphia. Katydids, long-horned grasshoppers that sing only at night, don't fly.

But you can watch them take short leaps while they flutter their green, leaflike wings and feel things out with their long, threadlike antennae. They appear like clockwork every June 15 or so, James says, "and they will be with us long into September." Each has a lifespan of several months. Their cousins, the more familiar short-horned grasshoppers, are out now, too. In droves. Males make a buzzing or clicking sound by rubbing their wings together or rubbing their wings with their feet.

Some make a crackling noise when they fly. Male crickets, on the other wing, make a chirping noise by rubbing a scraper on one forewing across a row of teeth on the other. The frequency of the chirps depends on the number of teeth rubbed per second. Tree and bush crickets chirp at night, prime cruising time for hot cricket dates. Crickets who live in the weeds are tireless, chirping both day and night.

Regardless of habitat, their most common songs are a calling song, to attract the female; the mating song, See SUMMER. Page C5 Around Here Jack Alkire Journal and Courlar George Gobel, and he and Williamson became close friends. "That was before George became really famous, although he appeared on the old WIS Barn Dance program in the 1930s when he was a kid. I used to listen to him on the radio when I was milking cows," Williamson says. After the war, Gobel appeared several times in Purdue Hall of Music variety 1 -rniM-n- LOS ANGELES Dynasty star Joan Collins underwrote husband Peter Holm's lavish lifestyle with a monthly $20,000 clothing allowance and gave him a $1.3 million salary for financial and business advice.

Celebrity lawyer Marvin Mitchelson tried to establish Collins during the second day of the couple's bitter divorce trial that money paid to Holm was a salary for his services, and not support payments, as Holm contends. The amount was equivalent to 20 percent of Collins' income during their 13-month marriage. Donaldson compares officials' use of TV CINCINNATI TV newsman Sam Donaldson said public figures who try to use television can be divided into two groups, actors and phonies. Actors, like President Reagan, use the medium effectively even when they skirt the truth, the ABC correspondent said, Donaldson but phonies ultimately suffer from too much exposure. "A phony to me is someone who tries to project what he's not," Donaldson said.

"Ronald Reagan projects what he is." Donaldson said he is personally fond oi Reagan, but he accused the president of being inattentive to important details. Wire Reports The Far Side Another unsubstantiated photograph of the Loch Ness monster (taken by Reuben Hicks, 52484, Chicago). 1 ii in i j. y.i, ivv WWJ.M,' Former WL mayor will attend flight reunion i you served at the Air Force flight training base at Frederick, during World War II, that community wants you to come back for a reunion on Aug. 22 and Aug.

23. The Frederick Chamber of Commerce wants to wine and dine you and talk about the great war days, former West Lafayette Mayor Jim Williamson says. Williamson spent most of the war years as a pilot instructor at Frederick Air Force Base teaching other pilots to fly twin-engine bombers like the B-26 and B-25. "I got my wings in the first class right after Pearl Harbor, and the Air Force needed instructors so bad they made the whole class into instructors," he says. The only celebrity who served at the base during the war was comedian programs, and Williamson and Gobel would get together and talk about their flying days as instructors.

"I remember he appeared here once over Thanksgiving, and I took him home to the Williamson Thanksgiving dinner," Williamson recalled. Anyone who ever served at the old bases in either a military or civilian capacity has been invited back to the reunion. The Air Force closed down the base after the war and most of it now serves as a community airport. There is a museum there with examples of the planes used on the base. Frederick is a city of 6,000 population, and the Chamber of Commerce says hotel accommodations are limited.

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