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Austin American-Statesman lifestyle Wednesday. August 1,1979 C1 iJappy Buddy Ebsen reunion A family broken up by hard times and farmed out to foster homes is finally back together after 40 years. Page El. More lifestyle, Pages E1-5. Veteran actor Buddy Ebsen has several irons in the showbiz fire for when 'Barnaby Jones." is cancelled.

Page E9. More Entertainment. Pages E6-9. It's the men's turn They show up at fashion a) ellie rucker Some solar film okay for inside I nil i il By JANE ULRICH American-Statesman Staff Most of them were hoping to be the man who came to dinner. Oh sure, they liked the men's fashion show Playboy magazine hosted.

Some of them even watched it. But the star attraction, the drawing card, the reason the aisles in Foley's men's department were clogged for the better part of an hour Tuesday at a noon fashion show was none other than Candy Loving, Playboy magazine's 25th Anniversary Playmate. Candy narrated a segment of the show, which was planned and put together by Playboy's fashion director, David Piatt. Her part, which followed Piatt's fall and winter tailored clothing choices and preceded his forecast for next season's sportswear, was the Johnny Carson suits, a sponsor of the show. Afterward, she autographed pictures for a long line of onlookers, who were signing up for the chance to have I Meet a men's fashion editor, C4 dinner with Candy at Mackedrick's Treehouse.

(The winner, 17-year-old Gary Hertel of Oak Hill, was named after the 7 p.m. fashion show. Why are you here? we were foolish enough to ask some of the mostly male crowd. "What do you think?" was a common response. Several others, who weren't eager to give their names, admitted, "I just came to get a look at her." Surely someone was interested in the clothes.

Perhaps a different tack: Did you like the fashion show? Frosty Walker, who works for Southwestern Bell, said he liked the show but he wasn't "real happy about the thin ties and thin collars" predominant in the tailored designers fashions. He also thought some of the fabrics especially wools and wool blends were "hotter and heavier" than he'd probably buy to wear in Austin's brief winter. But he did like many of the three-piece looks featured in the less trendy, more conservative Johnny Carson line. Walker, wearing a vested suit himself, said of the look, "I think it'll stay." Chip Buerger, an IBM employee, had similar feelings. Some of the directions the menswear designers were taking didn't impress him much.

He's not ready for tiny collars, narrow ties and narrow lapels. "I liked the Johnny Carson clothes," said Buerger, well dressed in suit slacks and a dress shirt. "That beige outfit was neat," he said of one of the conservative smooth-fitting suits with the Carson signature patch pocket. Not all the audience was so well dressed. The noon crowd was a mix of a few business suits with lots of shirts or T-shirts and slacks or jeans as well as some uniforms and no small number of cut-offs.

Even some who later admitted they were there because Candy Loving was there seemed intrigued at the idea of a men's fashion show. Some ensembles drew better response than others. The Carson suits were far and away the favorites; the skinny ties and lapels the least liked. But several of the coming season's trends seemed to do Just fine. The crowd responded fairly positively to: Pleated trousers with narrower legs; More color, especially in fun clothes and sportswear; Less color, some of the monochromatic looks in suit dressing.

1: jjf.V like the Johnny Carson says Chip Buerger, echoing the sentiments of many of the men. i Mm. Q. Can solar film be installed on insulated (double pane) windows? Some say it can be done, some say heat develops between the panes and the glass cracks. Can you ask one of your energy experts? A.

Any type of solar film can be installed on the outside of insulated windows. However, this isn't entirely satisfactory, because the film discolors and deteriorates in a couple of years. Chris Strand, with Conservation Unlimited, says there's one film, Therm-O-Lux Solar Control Film, that can be installed on the inside of insulated glass with no problems. There may be others but we know this one works because we have it on our thermopane windows anJ they're not cracked. It should be installed only on windows that have been in place at least one year.

Q. We're restoring an old house and need some information about refinishing two slicing boards which pull out from the kitchen counter. What do I do after sanding them? How do I clean them (they're wood)? Do they need some sort of sealer? Judy Morgan A. Since you've already sanded them smooth and removed the scratches, pour on some chlorine bleach and let stand a couple of hours to kill bacteria. Remove bleach with soapy water, rinse, towel-dry, then let the wood dry completely.

With a paper towel, apply a thin coat of mineral oil (it's non-toxic, unlike Tung oil, varnish or shellac). Mineral oil is the only "sealer" you need, says Mrs. Mark Landers at The Wood Joint. Q. My great-grandmother used to say, "I'll dance at your wedding with a cowbell on if you'll bring me my scissors." Well, I won't offer that, but I will bring you some homemade whole wheat bread if you can locate a kitchen trash can with a flip top.

The can has a pedal on the bottom. You step on the pedal and the top opens. My baby keeps knocking over the grocery sacks we're using for trash. L. J.

White, Burnet A. Everett Hardware, 718 W. 29th has one pedal-type, flip-top" trash can with a removable bucket inside for $27.50. That's okay about the bread. Forget it, it will make us fat(ter).

But if youiind my scissors, would you let me know? Q. Several large grocery chains, such as Safeway, have placed their entrance, doors to the left, as you approach and, similarly, as you depart, the exit door is to your left. After years of experience at en-tering-exiting to the right, this new method seems rather awkward. Why the change? George J. Wortell A.

"Good question," says Skip Inskeep in the construction department of Safeway. "I've been asking it for the past several years and still haven't gotten an answer." He's been building Safeway stores for 20 years and this has been discussed and they've switched back and forth several times. "We drive on the right side of the street, we walk on the right side of the sidewalk and it seems to me we should enter a store on the right. But recent store designers feel the flow of traffic is better going to the left, and right now all of the newer stores enter on the left." Right. Frosty Walker says he wasn't 'real happy about the thin ties and thin collars' featured at the show.

Kelly Shaw models an Yves St. Laurent ensemble. the real attraction is a special Playmate cn -ri That's when I decided to go see what they had to say." Playboy's editors liked what they They'd have to be blind not to. Blessed with' fluffy brown hair, delicate features and an hourglass figure, Candy commands attention wherever she goes. Although Impressed by the "attitude and professionalism" of the Playboy brass, Loving had reservations about posing even after it became obvious the magazine wanted her.

She worried how her mother In Ponca City, would react and won- dered whether she wanted to represent a magazine many find demeaning to women, i "I don't have to live In Ponca City, but you do," Candy told her mother, offering to refuse Playboy's offer if it would embar-I rass Rosemary Loving. But her mother; urged her do what you think is right" and now accepts congratulations from: friends and gets requests by the dozen for autographed pictures. Her qualms about Playboy's sexist image were more difficult to resolve. "I'm very much for women's rights and I-thought a lot about that," said Loving. "But I finally decided that what the women's movement is all about is allowing women to See Playmate, C4 By JOE FROUK American-Statesman Staff Since December, Candy Loving's life has been "hectic." She's lived out of a suitcase for weeks at a time, traveling from New York to San Diego, from Miami to Montreal.

She's appeared at trade shows, chili cookoffs and baseball games. She's signed more autographs than Reggie Jackson and given more interviews than Jerry Brown. But Candy Loving, Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate, isn't "This experx has done wonders for me," said the lissome, dark-eyed 22-year-old Tuesday afternoon. "I used to be very shy, but I can talk to anyone now. I've become more comfortable and confident.

Loving was a junior at the University of Oklahoma in April 1978, when Playboy scouts descended on Norman in search of candidates for the magazine's silver anniversary centerfold. When her schoolteacher husband suggested she try out, Candy laughed. "I had heard about the contest, but it just didn't seem real. I couldn't see myself doing something like that," said Loving, dressed in a white-on-white silk dress, its sides slit almost to the hip. "To tell you the truth, the first real incentive was when Ron (her husband) said the prize was $25,000.

t- it Stan fK by Ltny Mwphj Playboy Playmate Candy Loving autographs pictures after the fashion show. Graceful as a block of wood? Blame it on mother Ohio TV station helping out parents "Whatever is intelligence Is related to some brain portion while coordination is related to others," he explains. Also, the "quality and quantity of mothering" may affect a child's coordination, the psychiatrist says. He added he knows of no specific research to that effect, but it is his feeling the more a child is touched and cuddled and mothered, the less likely he is to be clumsy. Inheritance and attitude are two other factors that play big roles In determining whether you can climb a stairway without endangering your health.

Dr. Michael Jacobs, coordinator of the motor development center at UT, says coordination "does seem to be an inherited disposition." This means, he says, although you may not be a born athlete, you may have a predisposition to athletics if your parents do. However, that all can be affected by your attitude toward yourself. Once someone calls you a klutz, you become branded. "You're supposed to be clumsy, so you are," Dr.

Jacobs says. look foolish when you try to walk across a room. Not to worry. You are in the company of presidents, entertainers, models, athletes and reporters. And your inability to negotiate a corner or a stairway or a flat, flawless slab of sidewalk has nothing to do with your intelligence, says one Austin psychiatrist.

It may be that you have a neurological deficiency of some sort, or perhaps, your mother didn't cuddle you enough as a child, the psychiatrist says. However, an Austin psychologist says little research in her field has been done on klutzlness, per se. "It's not a behavior people worry about that much," says Dr. Tonl Falbo, a psychologist at the University of Texas. And not many psychologists devote lots of time to finding out why people consistently do things such as vacuum their feet or slam car doors on their heads.

"None (psychologists) I know are particularly interested in it," Dr. Falbo says. The word "klutz" comes from the Yiddish word are you ready for this? "klutz," which means "block of wood" or indicates "a person who has the grace of a block of wood," explains Dr. Stephen Gar-rin of the UT Germanic languages department. The ability to resemble a block of wood may have something to do with the buffeting a typical brain undergoes from the moment of conception throughout life.

"Most people accumulate a fair amount of wear and tear to every organ. This is also true with the brain," says the psychiatrist, who requested to remain unidentified. People who are clumsy may be suffering from a neurological deficiency brought on by trauma or genes or even something like a shortage of fatty acids their mothers may have experienced during pregnancy, he added. At the same time, just because part of your brain may be affected by a dearth of fatty acid, it doesn't mean you are not smart. "With that argument you could say the football player who has to be coached through college has a better brain than Albert Einstein, who couldn't throw a pass," the psychiatrist says.

By CHERYL COGGINS American-Statesman Staff For years now, I've awakened myself every morning by bouncing out of bed, bouncing off my wall and boomeranging toward the bathroom door. On the way I snag my little toe on the dresser, bang my hip bone on the doorknob and further cripple myself by stepping on a Dr. Scholl's orthopedic sandal I had tossed carelessly about the room the night before. This activity always wakes me up. My friend, David, does something similar but waits until he gets to the office so he will have an audience.

Instead of casually walking up the three stairs in one corner of our office, David likes to fall up the stairs. He usually catches his toe on the second step, flies around In a reverse full gainer lands feet first at the top of the third stair and walks away from the potential holocaust with nary a hair out of place. David likes to say he's a young executive on the way up. I'm sorry, David. What you are is a klutz.

You are clumsy and graceless and tend to Chicago Tribune Service Take heart, parents of America, the spirit of decency lives on, at least in Cincinnati. Variety reports that a television station there is offering a weekly theater guide that rates movies specifically in regard to sex, violence and offensive language. The reviewer makes no pretense of being a film critic, although he will give enough information on the story line and enough details about the artistic merits of new films to give viewers an idea of what they're plunking down their money to see. But the primary point he makes in his critiques is an assessment of the moral depths to which Hollywood has sunk on each particular endeavor, so that Cincinnati viewers can determine if a movie Is going to offend their moral standards, and whether or not they are going to want their kids to see It..