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TV today's tv interviews: 11:30 ABC: Gen. Bernard Rogers, NATO Supreme Commander 11:30 CBS: David Stockman Noon NBC: Sen. Alan Cranston taGDtkinnQnoofinQG Sunday, Feb. 6, 1083 SHIRLEY EDER 2 MOVIES 3 SOUND JUDGMENT 4 Call Entertainment: 222-6828 BJ QooO DETROIT FREE PRESS Complete tv updates, radio, soaps Page I0H. more than one correct entry are postmarked the same day, the tie-breaker questions will determine a winner.

If a tie remains, the winner will be selected by drawing from the earliest correct entries. Mail your entries to MASH Contest, P.O. Box 1653, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Free Press employes and their families are ineligible.

Entries must be postmarked by Saturday, Feb. 19. Here's how to enter: Answer the quiz questions on a postcard or the back of an envelope. Include your name, address and the phone number where you can be reached during the day. Or use this coupon and tape It to the back of an envelope or postcard.

Don't put your entry inside an envelope. The entry with the most correct answers and earliest postmark wins. If I'm Bob Talbeit 5. Which of the following is the incorrect full name? A. Benjamin Franklin Pierce B.

Margaret Houlihan C. Bruce J. Hunnicut D. Charles Emerson Winchester III Tie breaker: What are the names of Col. Potter's horse, Klinger's ex-wife and Winchester's sister? Karras tries a series Emanuel Lewis, who is that absolutely adorable kid urging his dad to buy a Whopper in the Burger King commercials, and a Spencer TracyKatharine Hepburn-type comedy script are the reasons ex-Detroit Lion Alex Karras will take a shot at his first television series.

Karras, who has turned down dozens of series up to now, will do it because Goodby, Hawkey Test your memories of MASH After "The Winds of War" blow away, the next television event of the decade will be the made-for-TV motion picture that brings an end to "MASH," the Korean war sitcom worshipped for the humanity of its plots and its money-in-the-bank success record. "MASH's" 1 1-year run on CBS comes to a halt with a 212-hour farewell at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28. And the end of that epoch merits something special.

So the Free Press is running the "Goodby, Hawkeye" MASH Trivia contest. Just answer the trivia questions compiled by Free Press TV writer Bettelou Peterson according to the rules at right, The winner will get $100 plus Hunnicut's pink long john undershirt genuine, from the "MASH" wardrobe collection, courtesy of 20th Century-Fox Television. Second prize will be a copy of a ASH" script addressed to you and autographed by Alan Alda; and four honorable mention winners will get $25 each. So sharpen your pencils, or even watch those "MASH" reruns on Channel 50 and give it a shot. Entries must be postmarked by Feb.

19, but promptness counts: the entry with the most correct answers and earliest postmark wins (see rules on coupon). Radar O'Reilly would have appreciated that. Super tie breaker: What is the name of Hawk-eye's surgical specialty? 1. In 1 1 years and 251 episodes, Hawkeye has saluted only three times. Twice the recipient was Radar (for going home and for his Purple Heart) The other was: A.

When Hot Lips dropped her bath towel, and all modesty, to salute Col. Potter. B. When Col. Blake was killed.

C. When Father Mulcahy was promoted. D. When B.J. announced his wife had a baby.

2. "MASH" is one of the few TV comedy shows that doesn't use a laugh track. True or false? 3. Who wrote the theme song, "Suicide Is A. Johnny Mercer B.

Johnny Paycheck C. Johnny Mandel D. Johnny Mathis 4. Which of these actors from the movie wound up repeating their roles in the TV series? A. McLean Stevenson as Col.

Blake B. Robert Duvall as Frank Bums C. Gary Burghoff as Radar. D. JoAnn Pflug as Lt.

Dish NAME: this Emanuel is so sensational and 'Soap' writer Stu Silver's script for the pilot has that great TracyHepburn couple-comedy feel we've been looking for." Karras' Georgian Bay Productions and Paramount will co-produce the pilot for ABC-TV, set for a March shooting. Karras will play a jock-turned-sportscaster and wife Susan Clark will play his TV wife, a Chicago councilwoman. "I'm the godfather of Emanuel, and when both his parents die in a tragic accident he's dumped into STREET: CITY: ZIP: DAYTIME PHONE: Karras 4 'j our lives," says Karras. "It's the most exciting project I've had as an actor." wot so exciting has been the Detroit Lions' response to Karras' plan to do a "romantic comedy TV movie for ABC in Detroit about Susan inheriting a pro football team from her father. I play an old-time, cigar-chomping coach.

I've done two pictures in Detroit and would love to do a third there. But William Clay Ford hasn't bothered to get back to me concerning my request to use the Lions facilities. If we don't hear from the Lions soon, we'll move the project to Dallas." DE LOREAN A ROLE Red faces at Random House over a student workbook, "De Lorean Is Business Today," given away as a bonus with the new edition of the firm's popular "Business Today" beginning textbook. A glowing case study largely written by a John De Lorean flack two years ago, 14,000 copies of the workbook were distributed before De Lorean was arrested on charges of plotting to sell and import cocaine. The publisher is preparing a special "epilogue" to the case study and is offering to take back the workbooks.

WINNERS: Reader's choice Capt. Charles Johnson, the pistol-packin' Marine for stopping those Israeli tanks; Vatican art offers a trip into history NEW YORK They're not as difficult to visit as King Tut's treasures, nor as scattered as Picasso's massive oeuvre, nor that different from the Western art holdings of major museums, including the Detroit Institute of Arts. But the 237 works on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from "The Vatican Collections" in a show subtitled "The Papacy Vif i imnjimw mmmmm mmmn. If VZy Michigan Sen. Don Riegle, for taking on the "fanatical" military spending of Caspar Weinberger and Ronald Reagan; and Chrysler's new H- Robert Mitchum's rugged performance as Pug Henry helps hold Herman Wouk's epic together.

A car front-wheel 9 and Art include some of the seminal masterpieces in the history of Western art. Minimally, the exhibition provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see in this country a selection of great objects that are almost always on display in Rome among the huge collections in the various Vatican museums. At its best, the exhibit is skillfully and provocatively arranged, to review the Roman Catholic Church's role in the collecting and patronage of the arts. But never mind that for a moment the cost of a trip to New York is worth it for a look at three works alone: 6HP naicnoacK, wnicn will preserve thousands of Detroit jobs. LOSERS: Read- Phe Winds of War I 1 Oil Marsha r.Iiro Eft Young Riegle be seen on Channel 7 in Detroit.

See page 5C for schedule and plot summaries.) The network's publicity blitz for "The Winds of War" began in December, and has churned relentlessly on er's choice Television's Phil Donahue and the sad and shameful cast of the Lansing "Baby Doe" story; Mayor Coleman (Ping-Pong Ball) Young, pounded into the net again last week; owners of GM's X-cars, recalled for the umpteenth time. PARTING SHOT: From Tim Durand, Dun Bradstreet, Toledo: "Since Michigan Consolidated Gas had ambulances on standby for the recent dismissals of company employes it would be wise to have ambulances on standby at all of their customers' homes when the monthly bills arrive." "The Belvedere Torso," a First Century B.C. Greek sculpture of a male nude carved so forcefully that his body seems to strain with tense energy at the confines of marble. It is powerful and unforgettable, despite its fragmentary condition, and is said to have been a model for the figures Michelangelo used on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Raphael's tapestry designed for the Sistine Chapel, which depicts "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes." It brilliantly weaves the gossamer beauty of silk, ward, stirring up cover stones in both Time and TV Guide magazines.

Add to that the copious chitchat on radio talk shows and abundant coverage in most newspapers. The project, based on Herman Wouk's epic best-seller on the events leading up to World War II, is probably the major event of the television season. And at the very least, it is one of the two certifiable blockbusters of the crucial February sweeps ratings (the final "MASH" program A producer's pride and $40 million are riding on the series By MIKE DUFFY Free Press TV Critic Dan Curtis gets right to the point about his pride and joy, "The Winds of War." "It's a massive piece of very, very entertaining moviemaking," the producer-director of the most expensive television production in history says confidently. This comes shortly after the candid Curtis has matter-of-factly admitted that, sure, this $40-million mega-movie is "a major gamble." A gamble? Yes, but certainly no folly. And ABC, a sharply-run money machine of a TV network, has been working overtime to insure that its gamble pays off handsomely this week.

(The show will names faces being the other). At 1 8 hours, this Curtis so-called "novel for television" will unfold over seven of the next eight nights, Saturday excluded. See GAMBLE, Page 6C wool and silver gilt thread into the strong image of Christ blessing Peter with a most serene gesture. "The Deposition," Cara-vaggio's 17th Century poignantly humane painting of Christ's body being taken from the cross and placed on the Stone of Unction. It is considered by many experts to be that great artist's greatest work, a picture admired by Rubens, Gericault and Cezanne among others.

THERE'S MORE, of course, much more, all of which traces the Vatican's art holdings since the founding of Old St. Peter's church (ca. 320 A.D.) when the popes first began seeking artistic hands to picture the Surgery for Jerry Ford GERALD R. FORD was in good condition after minor surgery for a recurring knee problem Saturday at Eisenhower Memorial Hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The former president, 69, was expected to be released today, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The operation forced Ford to withdraw from the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament this week at Pebble Beach, Calif. JOHN W. HINCKLEY who tried to assassinate President Reagan, wrote a letter that will appear in the March issue of Penthouse magazine chastising American reading habits. "Americans don't read good novels or All the objections blow away 1 Throwing darts at "The Winds of War" is a snap. You can joke about Ali MacGraw's acting; you can make fun of a plot that has some wildly contrived twists of circumstance; you can wring your hands, shake your Mitchum's rugged, absorbing performance, Wouk's storytelling makes "The Winds of War" work and gets us over the awkward moments and slow spots.

But above all, this is Bob Mitchum's show. He plays Victor (Pug) Henry, who is serving as a naval attache at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin when "The Winds of War" begins in 1939. Over the next three years, Pug is befriended by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, becomes his confidant on intelligence matters and somehow ends up at various times in the same room with Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill and Stalin. It is a tribute to Mitchum's physical oomph, his See WINDS, Page 5C poetry! he says.

"Instead they watch situation comedies on television and read the National Enquirer! My advice to people is to turn off the television and talk with each other! Go to the library, and discover Henry James or Walt Whitman!" head and go tsk, tsk about tne questionable mixing of historical figures and romanticized fictional ones. And you can wonder about the wisdom of generating nostalgia for war even if it is a war we won, when America was right, and when our power was blessed rather than cursed. Ford Hinckley I Hike I Flnffv Besides, who has 18 nours to illliiy spare watching over the next eight I television nights? Well, I've seen the whole thing. IIIinetosM Program Date, network (in 1 Super Bowl XVI 0U8: Viewers millions) 110.23 biblical and make visible the "The Belvedere Torso." even as cultura, fragmented, suggests energy. flS portant to our understanding of the Vatican's artistic wealth and historic religious thought as the King Tut exhibit was to increasing our comprehension of ancient Egypt.

Though the show is sponsored by various grants from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, and from corporations such as Philip Morris it is without a doubt here courtesy of the Catholic Church. The exhibit, which opens Feb. 26, continues through June 12 at the Metropolitan before moving to Chicago (July 23-Oct. 16) and San Francisco (Nov. 19-Feb.

19, 1984). It is arranged according to the succession of acquisitions made by the popes rather than chronologically. The popes varied in their approaches to art. Some were after work that would function as part of the church ceremonies and dogma. Others patronized great artists for the sake of art and the church.

A few were passionate collectors, buying masterworks to enhance the holdings of the church. In the earliest days of old St. Peter's Church, the popes sought art acquisitions that dealt with Christian themes to embellish the cathedral. In the 15th Century, classical objects such as "The Belvedere Torso" were collected as great works of man, God's creation, and as important intellectual ties to the Greco-Roman past. For the rebuilt and expanded St.

Peter's, which was begun in 1 506, nothing less than artistic splendor would do. Over the next few centuries during construction, religious objects of superb quality were commissioned to adorn the cathedral and the clergy. An elaborate cross and accompanying candlesticks of silver gilt and lapis lazuli in the exhibition, were made for the altar and are considered See VATICAN, Page 7C New York can be cheaper than you think. The details on "Vatican" tickets, airfares and hotels are on Page 7C. And along about hour 10, 1 caved in and got swept away.

Even with some very obvious flaws, "The Winds of War" is a big, friendly huggy-bear of a mini-series, although there's nothing mini about it. And largely because of Robert Mitchum's powerful presence in the central role, it is an often commanding, emotionally compelling piece of blockbuster television. Hey, "Winds of War," I kinda like ya, ya big lug. REMEMBER, HERMAN WOUK'S 1971 best-seller was a frankly romantic saga of the years leading up to America's entry into World War II. And Wouk has written the screenplay for this "novel for TV," a screenplay that is essentially true to the spirit of his book.

And the man can certainly spin a yarn. Along with WILLIAM STYRON, Kurt Vonnegut and Herman Wouk, all novelists, met with members of Congress to lobby for a law allowing artists to take tax deductions for manuscripts and works of art donated to libraries, museums, universities or public institutions. In 1969, Congress changed tax laws to stop abuses by public officials who donated their papers, but the law affected similar donations by artists and writers. Rep. Thomas J.

Downey, chairman of the Congressional Arts Caucus, told the trio that he would introduce the new legislation. ADOLF HITLER has been crossed off the list of honorary citizens in Paderborn, West Germany, after nearly 50 years. The City Council unanimously decided to eliminate Hitler's name from the list after West German newspapers pointed out that Hitler's name was never officially struck from the list. Hitler's name first appeared on the list on his birthday, April 20, 1933, after President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him chancellor. GEOFFREY BEENE is designing "stylized feature phones" for Technicom International.

Beene's ready-to-wear clothes sell at retail for four figures, not counting decimals. There was no hint of the price tag on his off-the-shelf telephones. "It is an exciting Idea moving into the environment of the people of America," Beene said. "Like clothing or fragrance, a telephone is a personal object. I hope to make Geoffrey Beene a household name." 1a 2 Compiled by JACKIE "JONES Jan.

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