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The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia • Page 3

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Nahcy Berg Is Latest TV Sensation InNcw York -NJEW YOJtK bye-baby is kid stuff. Very little the sidewalks of New York, anybody who's up.at 1 these is visually tuck- ed jfcto bed by a lone lovely brunette Nancy Berg. Went is the latest seitsa- tfofi la of late sensations. She a five-minute program er the local NBC television outlet. called "Count Sheep" and CvnsUts-tnostly of Nancy Berg, KATCHB'OIUWW 10 SNOW KTAIl Any orticlt purchased engraved FREE! F.

S. MERHOUT, Jewelers 109 W. Washington St. RE 2-4951 slipping daintily the sfceeis kUsiaf her dof and closing her A "it's not. But for the xtay-up And sprinkling insoMuaiac it't the greatest thing inventtof tf the innerspring mattress.

What makes the show is Nancy Berg. She's as beautiful gal can be and still run on And she has a of Audrey Hepburn she Admits it herself which.makes the show appeal to'the "It's a sort, of the says. "It's silly'and it's, flighty and it's-- 1 don't know how to explain it but it's'like a child playing games." To explain to them as can't see her themselves; the whimsy comes in at the beginning of the show. Each night, there's a theme. It may be music or a house ot cards or stuffed rabbits or anything.

Nancy, generally in pantomime, does something with the theme plays with the music boxes or builds the house of cards or feeas the stuffed rabbit. And she improvises little whimsical things around the basic theme. She may make believe the music box is a symphony orches; tra and conduct. She may imagine the stuffed rabbit is a fierce beast and on' a chair. Most of tEis stuff comes to her as she goes "1 know whaf I'll; do," she says: "It jiist to "me." She works from the "barest of outlines.

Here, 'for example, is a typical show' feg she gets it: "XancyJIs out four hands of looks at her cards. says foXir hearts. Goes around "the picks up the next hand and says, four hearts. Goes, to nex( hand, says four no trump. Goes to fourth "hand, says pass.

Back to first hand, then looks with the table and finally says, six no trump. Writes score down on paper. Gathers all cards back into the pack and says very importantly, 'I onlv bid, I never pla.v.' And so to bed." Fronj that framework, whimsy emerges on the wings of Xancj Berg's lovely face and budding acting talent. TW ttwrorts U.S. NIGHT CLUtGltLS SHOULD Wt4ft MOM LONDON Soi'iet editors said the girls; night club floor ought to wear more clothes, -tV, Moscow radio- broadcast -the criticism by'Anatoly Sofronov, editor of the magazine Qgonyok, Alexel Adzhubei, editor" of the newspajJer.

Komsomolskaya PraV- da. They returned recently from a-tour of America. Sofronov they'went to several night'clubs and that the floor shows were "very interesting" but those girls! "The territory "that was un- covered was uxwen too great." "Most, American girls are yerv preity," Adibutoei remarked. seemed tp agree on that KY SOLWEt CHAtGCO WITH MUlOCt, ROlllRY JDec. irMs NC, W-- A Boonesville -KyV soldier -is charged with murder and robberv in Ihe slaying of SFC.

WUey Burton, suppiv sergeant, on Ft. Beinning i-es 1 ervajtion. Chau-ges against PFC. Richard F. 20.

were 'preferred "by Lt. Col'. James L. McKenzie, commander of the infantrv' 'school detachment, according to the poet's was li informatwii office, WOMW fce point general to Hhe general court i i The sizable use Jot" tion in 'the United 1847 when Brigham YotMf mA Mormons Diverted water stream to irrigate- their on land now occupied by talk Citv. BOOST FROM THE IKE8-A blind veteran ill nighty glad President and Mn.

KiMnhowcr have come to Jxirg, Pa. Thai'i Robert JODDMO. 32, and his blind- Betty, and rugi they heard! about the courageous couple and wanted to Mamie'bought 10 rugs. Dee made sure reporters learned the story; of this who tnent lour yean ID the Valley Forge, Army Hospital undergoing S3 He was hit in the face' by a mortar blast-at Saafbrucken, In IMS-. The Johnsons, shown at their loom, believe the way to" stay happy is to keep busy.

So they started their rug business, although, Johnson gets a veteran's disability check each month. She's a Kenosha, girl who always wanted to be actress. But'her beauty made her an ideal models-She's been on the cover-of virtually- every important maga- sine. At .24, she's one of the most successful and highest paid, models In-New York. -But she's never gotten over wanting" to act.

She's turned down bids'---. "one 6f them could have made me a star overnight" because she says she isn't reaay yet. To get ready she's studying 'acting This further complicates an -already com- plicated schedule. Sfie models most of the day, studies, goes out, does- her TV This makes a day that generally lasts from 9 m. to 3 a.

m- Atid there's no pleasant'lit- tle TV" show on at that hour to put her to sleep, and so the poor kM has. insomnia. Her cure -boring "book. a-hot drink and -f- The Irish cudgel, gets, its name from a nlnce in County Wicklow where blackthorn saplings grow the knobbiest. TO CUSTOMERS AND OTHER FRIENDS- rerenl trfcicli completely triperf tre are to remier the trfcirli become mecustomed.

HOWEVER, opened temporary office 249 HALIFAX ST Ouct 4 doan our location) ic for tke convenience of who trish to mmkc payments on accounts. We trust thmt you trill bemr with us during this emergency unttt such time msrice trill be mhle to serve you us tee have over the pmst 4f jaimaae WUBNItUlE: i PHONE RE 2-731 6-SHOPPING DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS! ave oecome wun our The biggest party month means dresses that are frankly glamorous shown here are three beautiful dr.esses that reflect the lights, and the music and magic of- the Christmas season crisp taffetas printed in a splash of color, sprinkled with twinkling jewels, and whirled over ramatic brocades, and regal velvets that you'll delight in Come in today and choose one of.these hdliday masterpieces! Styles Shown 22.98 Others from 17.98 to 39.98 Second Floor Shop Tomorrow 9:30 to 9 P..

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