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DETROIT FREE PRESSWEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1983 15C MASTT built hot story is a mm Call Features at 222-6828 Dob logical laws: A poor excuse is better than no excuse at all. From "1,001 Logical Laws, (Doubleday) tin ii mi Vnl ftrnnl George Williams: Bill Castleman: Sydney Harris watch us deserves a bow Channel 50 general manager, George Williams, a gruff old bald eagle, leaned over at the Roostertail's VIP table Monday night and shouted above the roar of the Last MASH Bash March of Dimes benefit crowd: "Get this look-alike show on the road so we can watch my show at 8 o'clock! The first 'MASHT' Some 800 at $25 a pop packed the riverfront night spot, cheek-to-cheek in O.R. green and camouflage-chic, paying homage to a beloved American television institution's finale. It was a madhouse as dozens of Alan Alda "Hawkeyes" and Loretta Swit "Hot Lips" preened and paraded about in a contest won by Rochester's Jerry Hazen, a startling Hawkeye clone. Williams was appreciative of the March of Dime's benefit and the major effort all the costumed fans had made to be there, but he just wants everybody within a TV set's range to watch his station at all times.

And particularly Monday night's 8 p.m. showing of the first "MASH" from 1 1 ft years ago, which would bring WKBD-TV its highest prime-time rating (31) and audience share (43) in the history of America's current top-rated UHF independent station. IT WAS TYPICAL OF THE counter-programming coups that have made Williams and his program director Bill Castleman one Free Press TV critic Mike Duffy for not liking the finale. Just remember, he enjoys Deney Terrio and "Dance Fever." 'Nuff said. I loved every second of the final 22 hours, but I'm at another extreme.

I'd have loved 22 hours of 8-by-10 stills from old "MASHs" if that's what they'd shown. Things I'll never forget from the finale: when the chicken turned into a baby and Hawkeye's breakdown turning me into a 250-pound tear; going-deaf Father Mulcahy asking God if He was deaf, too; Hot Lips and Hawkeye giving each other the kiss I'd like to have given the entire cast and company; and picturing in my mind a bunch of little Korean kids with big Klingeresque noses. NOW, BACK TO THE Channel 50 story. About, a year and a half after Williams arrived at WKBD-TV eight years ago, the station's controversial talk-show host and No. 1 TV star in town, Lou Gordon, died.

Many thought the station would die then, too, with only "Bill Kennedy at the Movies" left. But the station didn't die and has gone on to become the healthiest UHF independent station in the nation. Take a bow, George Williams and Bill Castleman. You deserve it. TV Critic Mike Duffy was disappointed in the finale.

Story on Page 9D. of local television's hottest acts. Yep, the Marshall Fields-owned station that "MASH" built is a hot local story. Maybe not as headline-grabbing as Channel 7's Winds of Detroit Bill Bonds cranking out the top ratings or Channel 2's Wounds of Detroit Bill Flynn's housecleaning or WDIV's Whines of Detroit begging us to Go 4 It but it's still very interesting. Channel 50's story is its package of movies and hot-hit sitcoms that Williams says are doing eyepopping numbers in ratings and ad revenues numbers that could have folks around the country figuring ways to pay the reported $60 million price tag to buy this money machine from Fields.

"We had a 50 share Sunday," Williams beamed, talking of Bill Kennedy's movie which was up against the networks' glamorous Sunday sports lineup. WILLIAMS AND CASTLEMAN, local TV's version of Hawkeye and Beej, got more mileage out of CBS-TV's "MASH" finale than did CBS' local penny-pinching affiliate, which did zilch in the way of promoting it or helping any of the charitable "MASH" night benefits. All during February, Channel 50 ran a "MASH" greatest hits promotion that had upwards of 30 percent of the viewing audience watching at 7 p.m., leaving Frank Reynolds, F. Lee Bailey and "Joker's Wild" sucking wind. And what makes Williams and Castleman even happier is that they own the "MASH" reruns through 1990.

By then all us "MASH" fans should have memorized all the lines from all the shows if we are doing our jobs. A BRIEF WORD HERE for all the "MASH" fans who may be upset with Shoo by Icff nacHcIly "-TT" Efma Bombsck. The neiv breed of xvorker needs a new breed of boss We hear a lot these days about the "retraining" of workers for new jobs in the post-industrial age we are now entering; and it is indeed a new age, in which industry and production will take a backseat to the processing of information and services. Factory workers were originally called "hands," like farm hands, because that is what they were; their other parts, including their heads, were interchangeable. They were what the economists call "fungibles," like so many pennies ofgrains of wheat, which are equivalent and indistinguishable and have the same value as one another.

IN THE LOOMING ECONOMY, and thus the looming society, there is going to be a diminishing, if not dying, role for such people. The new breed of workers will not so much be making things as handling and transforming things. They will be a more personal and direct and immediate link between sellers and buyers, and they will change from a "labor force" to "personnel." In doing so, they will cease to be faceless workers, of the sort that Marx wrote about a century ago, and will themselves be transformed into more responsive and responsible persons. Education, both intellectually and socially, will be the key to almost any kind of employment in the coming age, except for the most menial tasks. Most people who are aware that our current unemployment rate is as much "structural" as it is statistical have alerted us to this radical alternation for some time.

But what employers do not seem to know yet is that the new kind of worker will require a new kind of boss, and this may be the hardest kind of transformation for our society to make. Until now, in our history, labor and management have taken a confrontational attitude toward one another; this has done immeasurable harm both to our productivity and to our morale. The Japanese "partnership" model seems far superior to ours. EMPLOYERS, ON THE WHOLE, have been autocratic, authoritarian and adversarial. Workers, on the whole, have been resentful, suspicious and even spiteful.

The former's lust for immediate profits has been equaled only by the latter's drive for immediate gains; neither has paid sufficient attention to the long-term goals of the enterprise, and each side is fearful that the other will usurp its cherished prerogatives. Kids liked the ambience even if it ivas a bit salty There was an ad in a paper the other day for a McDonald's which now accepts Visa or Mastercharge with a $3 minimum purchase. That says something about our economy, doesn't it? It also says something about how far plastic money has come. I wouldn't dream of taking my kids anywhere to eat without the security of a gold American Express Card giving me unlimited funds. Try not to cut ties with children Before they could say "toi toi" or "poo poo" they knew words like Chateaubriand and-escargot.

I used to see other couples in restaurants with their children and they'd toss the uauy a usi ui oreaa or a cracKer anu iney a su mere ana i slobber happily for the next two hours. tK Joyce Brothers'" I Our kids scarfed away everything but the check. I was 35 years old before I knew what a doggy bag was. While visiting with my kids in LA last month, I invited two of them out to eat. It was a perfectly safe move.

My daughter was on a diet. She told me so. She had written us how her stomach had shrunk so she could barely force down served at these parties than to the actual stress and strain of the added work he's doing. Contrary to popular opinion, alcohol doesn't turn people on to sex. It relaxes and breaks down certain inhibitions.

It is a social lubricant, but is also a sedative. After the first few drinks, the sedative begins to take effect and the result is a definite turn-off to sex. In addition to the problems of the extra pressures to drink, your husband probably also is experiencing extra pressure, generally. This is a time for understanding and patience. a little consomme with a few greens at lunch and for dinner it was just something broiled and spartan.

Besides, she was a vegetarian now and that ruled out steaks. Capitalism can no longer afford this internecine warfare if it is to survive and flourish. Hearts and heads must be totally engaged, and not just hands, if we are to make the most of what the future offers us. My son worked nights and always had a late breakfast so BY A Dear Dr. Brothers: I have two children, aged eight and 1 0, whom I love very much.

They almost mean more to me since my wife and I divorced. Yet when I have the opportunity to see them, I can barely make myself go to our old home because there are such painful associations. Now, my wife is living with another man, which makes it unbearable. Because I'm so emotionally upset by this, I wonder if it wouldn't be better not to see my kids. A.Y.

Dear A.Y I appreciate how painful this situation must be for you, but I think it would be a mistake to cut off the ties with your children. No matter how much you might try to explain, children have a way of assuming that events are their fault. They personalize everything and the child whose parent ceases to come for visits, assumes it must be because he or she is unlovable and no longer valued by the parent. Your visit, no matter how painful for you, is a vital link to your children's sense of themselves. They need you and they need to feel there is an ongoing connection they can count on.

Every study on children of divorce shows that youngsters who remain actively involved with both parents are better adjusted and have fewer psychological problems than those with ties to only one. Consult with your ex-wife; ask if it would be possible for her, or someone else, to take the children to a neutral place to be picked up. This would help ease some of the tension associated with going to your former home. Dear Dr. Brothers: For the past two months, my husband's job has necessitated his presence at dinners and cocktail parties with potential clients around the country.

We have a good marriage and a wonderful sex life, but it has really suffered during this period. He says our problems have nothing to do with his feelings about me, but I'm beginning to wonder. I know he's tired, but how tired can you be? M.B. j. Dear M.B.: He may be reacting more to the alcohol being BRILLIANT Joyce Jillson horoscope THE TKUTH ABOUT I knew he wouldn't want anything heavy.

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Kate Nelligan may not get what she wants; Brendan Gill was told he's right. tie novels Into TV movies or CBS "Caribbean Mystery" and "Sparkling Cyanide." When you're hot, you're hot, as Canada's fabulous actress Kate Nelligan knows. She won fame starring in "Plenty," one of Broadway's few straight dramas of distinction, and at the same time had the critics raving overer performance in the movie "Without" leading charactej-s as King Tut, Queen Nefre-titl and Akhneatbn. What marvelous fun for the people who'll do the casting! This movie will be filmed on location in Egypt and end up as a six- or eight-hour mini-series via Warner Meantime, Margulies is also making two Agatha Chris-.