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Off And the Strip Tease Artist Charges Rape ehirid Your 00 XT. 4 ri i i i C2 i rtf mTi ff "Today Is Righf Up to the Minute Uy JERRY FRANKEN DIRECTING any TV show is a tense, nerve-wracking" job, calling for split-second timing and quick thinking by the director and precise cooperation on the part of a large technical crew. But directing a 3-hour telecast, the contents of which are frequently unknown up to the moment of air time and which may change even while the program is on the air is a particularly harrowing chore. Yet, that is the directing problem which faces NBC-TV's "Today" program every morning. "Today" is the early morning conglomeration with which NBC starts its daily TV schedule.

It stars bespectacled Dave Garroway and his chip-anzee friend, J. Fred Muggs, who does not wear spectacles. Partly because directing "Today" is so onerous and partly because no one director could stand its rigors, nbc-tv has two directors alternating on the show. They are Mike Zeamer and Jac Hein. Neither wears spectacles.

On the days they are working, Zeamer and or Hein check in at nbc-tv's street-level 49th St. studio in Manhattan around 3 A. M. Preceding them has been a large crew 0 0 0 fl W2 Geraldine Swtnioit and Muttmutt. (forehead, face, neck and one ear.

if found the revolver, which was hers and for which she had a per-i mit, in his coat pocket. A "confession" which the prosecution said Thomas had made to Cpl. James F. Finn at the state troopers' barracks in Troy on Dec. 11 was repudiated by Thomas on the witness stand.

He said he had not made all the statements it contained, but that Finn had typed out a statement for him, and he had signed it, after being beaten and kicked. Troopers denied they had struck or kicked Thomas. After Thomas testimony, Casey introduced a tape recording of the questioning of Thomas by Finn, which had been made by Sgt. George B. Reynolds.

Judge Pitt listened to the recording privately in his chambers to determine if it could be admitted as evidence, and then ordered the courtroom cleared of spectators during the 58-minute playback, "in the interests of common decency." The 5-nian, 7-woman jury retired for deliberation at 10 minutes past noon. At 11:45 P. Miss Kathryn "t.t rcs3u Jac Hein, left, and Milce Zeamer yjklt co-director of "Today." In background are poster ued in the recent Italian election. Dave Garroway givem J. Fred Muggs at taste cf his birthday cake.

Jacques but he dropped the Taft four letters while in high school) started out as a gag writer Edgar Bergen, Bob Burns) became an advertising ajrefiey radio director and then shifted over to SHC, Some weeks ayo Hein was facet! with a particularly critical moment. It happeneil shortly before "Today" was to do a commercial for a floor wax. Tart of the toiii-mcrcial called for CI arrow ay to sweep away some dirt from a recently waxed floor, just to priV how easy it was. Well, TV beinj? what it is, it can't use plain everyday dirt, the reason being no kiddintr that it looks too dirty on camera. As a result this commercial uses especially prepared dirt, treated with a dye to make it look like undirty dirt.

This partkulai crisis came about when it was belatedly found that the special Ty dirt had been Swept away for real. Hein thought and acted fast. found other dirt and then mixed it with ground chalk. When shov.n on camera it looked fine just dirt, but not too dirty. E.

Fitzgerald, foreman, told the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked, and there was no chance that further deliberation would result in a verdict. Judge Pitt then discharged the jury, and Thomas was returned to jail under the same $10,000 bail that he has been unable to raise. (Continued from piifie 2) to leave Muttmutt, the kitten, alone in her car. At any rate, according to the stripper, the three of them Thomas, Muttuiutt and Geraldine drove around until Thomas pulled the ear into a dark road across the Massachusetts line and stopped. He turned off the lights, ordered her into the hack seat and then followed.

She struggled and fought, Geraldine says, but she was overpowered. Later, says Geraldine, Thomas drove her back to Route 20, and when they stopped at a fi-as station she fled from the car and told Mrs. Edith B. Tierney, operator of the station, to call the police. Mrs.

Tierney testified that the car "drove in and out like a flash," and that Geraldine was very nervous and excited. State trooper Frederick li. Potts, who answered Mrs. Tierney phone call, described Geraldine "as disheveled, shoeless and with bloodstains on her face. Dwyer brought the kitten hark into the testimony again in his cross-examination on the "escape" at the gas station.

If Geraldine had fled in such haste from a car that drove in and out like a flash, he asked, how was it that she had managed to bring along with her once more her compact, her hag, Muttmutt and also a registration sticker from Thomas' windshield, through which the state troopers located him later that same day The defense attorney said no force was involved in any of the acts committed that night, and that Geraldine's "horrible story'' had resulted in a million dollars' worth of publicity nationally, which is "extremely valuable to a strip-teaser." While she was denying things, Geraldine said that she was not and never had been pregnant, al-tl ough a letter she wrote in April to a man identified only as "Dear Gordie" said she was. (The letter was admitted in evidence over objections from Assistant District Attorney John T. Casey.) She met Gordie in Troy in January, she said, fell in love with him and "had an affair" with him then. They were separated by her bookings and she wrote him from Maryland that she was going to have his child in October. Of course this wasn't true, she said.

She didn't seem to see why Dwyer should be so puzzled over her reasons for writing a false statement of this kind. She had said she was pregnant by Gordie, she explained patiently, because she was in love with him and wanted to keep in touch. In a surprise move, the defendant's wife was called as a prosecution witness. Mrs. Aaron O.

Thomas Jr. testified that her husband returned home shortly after 7 o'clock on the morning of Dec. 10, "covered with blood," with cuts on rectors. Fortunately. Dave Garroway found that Fred loves grapes and will sit still if given a bunch.

Fred gets a weekly salary of $250 and is owned by two ex-NBC page boys, Roy Waldron and Bud Mennellan, who now operate a pet shop in Glen Rock, N. J. Shortly after they acquired Fred they brought him over to NBC primarily to show the progress they'd made since leaving the network and the next thing they knew, they owned a TV7 star. Fred now makes a lot of personal appearances. He rides around in a green station wagon, on the sides of which is emblazoned, together with a portrait, Fred Muggs, TV star." Mike Zeamer got his preparation for directing this sort of shindig via a career as a newspaper reporter, free lance writer, creating nbc's top notch "Voices and Events" radio series and graduating to TV.

Jac Hein (it used to be TarUIinf IRIS avlarted fr tka lollowiaf aoefeoM Royal Purpla Lemon Yellow Creamy Gold Bold Bronze Baby Blve Sunrise Orang and the Sensational FLAME-RED IRIS of editors, newsmen and technicians, who on the basis of an outline provided by the program's producer, Mort Werner, have' put together a skeleton of that day's "Today." But since the best of plans especially in TV can often go haywire, the prepared schedule may become meaningless. Once, for example, "Today" was all set to go on the air, when, two minutes shy of air time, came the flash of the death of King George. From then on, the show was ad libbed. On a more recent occasion, "Today" was about to get under way when a number of major stories broke, all virtually simultaneously. One was the tragic Tokyo plane crash (this bulletin came in while the show was on); another was the release of additional prisoners by Syngman Rhee; another dealt with the East Berlin anti-Communist riots and another was an earthquake in Turkey.

In virtually all instances, coverage had to be improvised during the telecast period. Coverage also has to be improvised for shooting the antics of J. Fred Muggs, who is 16 months old and somewhat defiant of TV di- RF.SORT8 Boy Kills Mom; Dad on Trial (Continued from page S) State will charge that Simpson, not Vivian, wanted it all. The prosecution also will charge that Simpson was worried over the impending return of Vivian's older boys. Pat, 23, was due for discharge from the Marine Corps soon and Vivian planned to offer him a home with the family.

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