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w-4 Jrounuer ob Talbert's Detroit raps ream wine Broth nlimited 4 His BY TOM RICKE FrM PreM StH Writer why she's got such a big voice in the Octo-. ber issue Lucille Ball wants and will get the starring role in the film version of "Mame" Selma Diamond says her first novel will be titled, "Nose Jobs For Peace," which she will dedicate to Tiny Tim, Jimmy Durante and Barbra Streisand Jack Kramer says that youngsters Interested In play-" ing championship tennis should begin at the i Aaron Thompson is 50 now and he walks slowly with nothing much but wine in his belly, and all his hopes and dreams ripped up in a brown plastic satchel he always has with him. The other day he sat and 1 'r 1 1 1. jtS4 1 Jane Hoover DAVID FROST, TV holiest interviewer, says he can't understand why people make such a "to-do over my ability to ask ties questions. My formula is very simple.

I do my homework, read all about my guests and related subjects. And I never try to be tense. Just imagine how you would feel if you went on a TV show and the host shook hands with you, clutching you with a damp, sweaty palm and death grip. If I'm relaxed, my guests blossom." From all of history, Frost says the perfect pair of guests "would be the two JC's Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar." AUTHOR Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's for-mer press secretary, says, "President Nixon keeps promising to make one thing perfectly clear and Middle America keeps waiting and waiting. what did Nixon do? He sent Spiro Agnew out to see what he could do.

Sending Agnew out to make something perfectly clear is like sending Joe Namath to a chastity conference." CHARLTON HESTON, president of the Screen Actors Guild, is not exactly pleased that his epic film, "Ben Hur," has been sold 10 television. "Movies like 'Ben Hur' should not be shown on TV for technical reasons," he ays. "It was made as a wide-screen movie ajxj Scan't bfe adequately adapted to the TV set. And a lot of the 'new-freedom" moviei like "'Easy Rider' and 'Midnight Cowboy' shouldn't be shown on commercial or pay televisor because that sort of movie should not be allowed in the living rooms." KIRK DOUGLAS is not very Impressed with some of the "epic heroes" he' portrayed on the screen Ulysses, Sp'artacus, and Vincent Van Gogh: "They are all bigger than life, but none are necessarily heroic because they were motivated by greed, luat, desire or by a desperate need to be loved at all costs." IT'S OPEN season on sports heroes, particularly Mickey Mantle, former New York Yankee hitting star turned coach, Jim Bou-lon rapped The Mick in "Ball Four" and now former teammate Jackie Jensen says, "I like Mickey and think he's a fine fellow, but I don't think he can make it as a batting coach. Mick doesn't know 'a single thing about hitting.

Sure, he was one of the greatest, but it was all natural talent. He simply overpowered the ball without necessarily knowing how he did it. He made up for his mistakes by sheer power." Without realizing it, the FBI has become the No. 1 seller in hippie botiques and head shots. Reproductions of the agency's "wanted" poster of revolutionary Angela Davis is the hottest item in the underground J.

Edgar Hoover's troops maintain an around-the-clock surveillance on Jane Fonda, whom Hoover calls "the patroness of. the pacifists and the pussycat of the Panthers." DYAN CANNON, Cary Grant's ex-wife, is the only female signed for Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" film and one of the few rising young stars not signed by "Playboy" magazine for a nude spread. She turned Hugh Hefner's $10,000 offer down cold, but singer Lainie Kazan didn't and you can see. talked in a downtown office while beads of sweat popped out on his forehead. He opened the satchel and pulled out the papers and documents that describe what life was like for him three years ago.

THERE WERE the charter of Brothers Unlimited, newspaper clippings with long favorable reviews of the Brothers Unlimited's "Black Choreologia Show" they put on, and a picture of the building they had hoped to buy. But that Is all over now. Brother! Unlimited', the group which ran a camp this ummer for inner-city youth in 1 1 0 near Kensington Park, now had a badly tarnished public image. Parents of youngsters attending the camp accused the Brothers of abusing their children and not feeding them properly. After a brief Investigation, the Metropolitan Detroit Youth Foundation and the Detroit Model Neighborhood Program, which provided most of the funds for the camp, shut it down.

The men who ran the camp believe in the tenets of Islam, and because they taught children at the camp their religion, many parents were angered. The man also believed in black separatism, and although they say they don't hate anyone, when they speak of "whitey," they often speak with anger. Aaron Thompson and a few other members of Brothers Unlimited never went to the camp. They do not believe In the tenets of Islam but do not criticize members who do. But 0 1 Unlimited, they lay sadly, is not what it itarted out to he.

When the organization started, white men were members. And the group, they say, was originally based upon the principles of Christianity. The story of Brothers Unlimited illustrated how existing in Detroit's ghetto can turn men to dope, wine or religious fanaticism, and sometimes make them feel whatever they age of eight and play no other sports or they'll never make it to the big time. WRITER Jimmy Breslin sayi, "Sometimes I think the Mafia is composed of 10 hoods named Rocco and a smart guy named Sid-ney who counts the money for them. Mafia guys I know can't count higher than 10 with-.

out taking their shoes off. They say they're 5oing into legitimate business. Well, let 'em. he Protestants will rob 'em blind in a yer." WISCONSIN Sen. William Proxmire, lays "Based on our military outlays tnd economic strength, if we are aix feet tall, the Russian! are three feet tall and the Chinese six inches tall." PRODUCER Joseph Levine on today's "star" system: "Remember, we didn't sign Dustin Hoffman for 'The Graduate.

We invented him." URBAN LEAGUE'S Whitney Young says the Nixon administration, "is sort of like Jello. You can't really get a hold of it, you know. It's what I call white magic now you see it, now you don't." JOAN RIVERS lays the New York rivers are "so polluted they changed the signs from 'No Fishing' to 'No Fish. WHEN schmaltzklng Lawrence Welk takes his band through a lemi-classical number he cautions hii audience! "not to start the rumor that I'm going longhair, because that term doesn't mean what it used to." NOW LIVING in a los Angela home for the aged, 85-year-old actress Billla Burke says, "Television director! have no patience with little old ladies. Acting just wasn't fun anymore and that's why I've retired after 60 years in show business." ASKED what he'd like to have on his gravestone, master of horror films Vincent Price says, "I guess I'm an old ham, really, to the bone.

My epitaph: 'He didn't die of That's what matters." lYnr-nrn -t Trr itt ''iin wnri rriiirt nrirrm in inriMi riTTfi' i iinrif Tirfly nnrnr -iiiionn'riti'rrrtiilir the gap between black and white. Somehow, somewhere, his dream went awry. Aaron Thompson helped create Brothers Unlimited after the 1967 riots in Detroit in an effort to bridge suffer. We'll get you, whitey, in our own way Aaron Thompson, who has spent 20 of his 50 years in prison for heroin-related offenses, went back to the needle for comfort. Thompson, now 1 i i on welfare, says he is receiving methadone treatment and drinks only wine to relieve his tensions and escape his frustrations.

He stood on a downtown corner one day last week and said: "I still dream of the building we wanted to buy and of white and blacks folks and all people and artists working together and neighborhood children coming by to watch and learn." He lowered his head and clenched both fists and squinted his eyes and said: "I still have hope. am uplifted. I have been so down. "I have starved and been robbed and have had no roof over my head. I can still read poetry and can still dance and direct.

I still have my message to deliver. "If I thought it was all over, I would have nothing left to live formed for awhile at Concept East and charged $1 admission. They also at churches in white neighborhoods in Detroit and for ministers of white churches in the Southern Oakland County suburbs. They did not charge admission for church performances, but were paid a flat fee by the churches. Alfred (Slick) Cambell, the man who later ran the summer camp, wrote most of the poetry and played the drums and saxaphone.

Aaron Thompson recited poetry, danced and directed the group. "Ride a Black Horse," was the title of the show. Thompson would dance and say: "One, three centuries removed from the seas his father loved, spicy cinnamon tree, what is Africa to me?" CAMPBELL, ECHOING the rage of the ghetto, would say: "Ka-PING, Ka-PING (the sound of sniper's bullets) don't you know a 's freedom's ring? Fear is the breeder of contempt America is the land of split' level homes and split level truths Thompson would say: "What must I do? Purr like a kitten to satisfy you? Roar like a lion to satisfy myself? What is Africa to me?" Although the show received favorable reviews in Detroit newspapers, it attracted sparse crowds. The performers went through their dialogue some nights with only one or two in the audience to listen. The little money the players received came from liberals in the white suburbs, according to Thompson.

"Everyone else was getting money from the establishment to do their thing but us," Thompson said. "We got plenty of promises but little money. "We had to go home each night to face the roaches and stomp on them before they got to our i I and there were many days when all we had to eat was greens," Thompson said. "This is what builds up the hate, knowing you're talented and yet starving because no one will help you." In 19K9, the group was incorporated as a neighborhood assistance agency. The purpose, quoted in its charter, read: 'Tn general to assist needy individuals and families in obtaining the necessities of livelihood and to assist them in bettering their social cultural and economic standards." The group asked for city money to hire restless black youths to tear down old buildings in urban renewal areas.

"WE WANT. to use destruc-tion for constructive purposes," Jesse Ellis said at the time, "to tear down the city, so to speak, and yet help our people." Their request was turned down by the establishment. With only promises of support and little money, tensions built up within the group and splintered it. Campbell and most of the other men blamed the group's troubles such as last month's closing of the Milford camp on the white man. Thompson and a few others, blamed the "establishment" in general.

"WHITEY, WHAT do you want, man?" Ellis said the other "You've destroyed all we've worked to build. You're a devil. If Allah is just, you'll Sept. 20-26, 1950 try to do for their people is like running head on into a brick wall of white prejudice. Brothers Unlimited was organized shortly after the Detroit riot of 1967.

Thompson and Jesse Ellis were the main organizers. It began as an entertainment group which put on show! with flutes and dancing and drums and creative poetry aimed at bridging the gap between the races. THE SHOW'S aim was' to make blacks aware of their heritage and culture and to make whites aware of how black. men feel. They per- News of the Week Kim Agneip: The Last One at Home Bob Hope and Lucille Ball Ifl "Fancy Pants" at Michigan.

Fire atop Majestic Building; firemen hampered by failure of Internal water lystem. Indochina War heats up as Communist-led Vietminh batter French outposts. Cora Carlyle tells female Free Press readers, "How to Get a one trick is to wear frilly aprons while you serve him highballs. Detroit mother finds son in POW pic-ture released by Koreans. Shallow grave yields body of eight-year-old St.

Clair Shores boy murdered by sex deviate. Eerie midday darkness leaves Detroit awestruck; it's caused by smoke from forest fire all the way up in Alberta. Defeat of Senator Taft urged by Averill Harriman. 16" Motorola television sets advertised for "only" $329.95. Red Wing rookie Marcel Pronovost injured at training camp.

Omar Bradley sworn in as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Senate confirms George C. Marshall as Secretary of Defense. Selective Service plans crackdown on draft dodgers. Leader of Detroit garbage strike accused of "subversion" by City Loyalty Commission; it's part of nationwide Red hunt now getting into high gear. Movies: Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford in "Convicted" at United Artists; namesfaces Did You Wonder tle supplies about 100 pounds of delicious meat "as good as steers and cows." First Visit in 105 Years President Nixon plans to see a show at Ford'i Theater in Washington the first 'President to do so since Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there 105 years ago.

Mr. Nixon's visit Nov. 18 will be to see a show he had a hand in arranging. It will include readings from the Lincoln papers by James Stewart and performances by Elvis Presley and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Women Staffers Doubled Exactly one-sixth of South Vietnam's female career diplomats are based in London at their Kensington Embassy all two of them.

The latest addition is Phong Lan. She created history by being the first girl in the nrotocol department at the Foreign Ministry in Saigon. She is now a third secretary. Her name means "orchid," and she'i 26. Her English tour-of duty will be four years and she's welcome company to Nguyet Nguyn who has been the lone female on the embassy staff.

Vice-President Splro T. Agnew's daughter Kim, 1 14, is the only offspring still at home. As a re-iult, she attracts considerable attention. A family aide said she "doesn't want to become a public figure. She does not give lnteri views; she is not interested in public things." Kim was a bit of a heroine once to anti-war forces when she wanted to join a protest march for peace in Washington.

Her father thought otherwise. From time to time since then, placards have appeared at rallies reading "Free Kim Agnew." To show her how the American system works, the vice-president took her and Mrs. Agnew on part of a political campaign swing. Kim reportedly enjoyed it. Fascinated with the West and American Indians, the youngster this summer traveled to the Pueblo, N.M., area.

She rode' horseback to Blue Lake to present a gift to an Indian chief. The other members of the Agnew family have gone their separate ways. Randy, 26, a navy veteran of the Vietnam war, separated from his wife last spring. He is teach- ing weight lifting at a health salon in Maryland. Daughter Pamela, wife of Robert DeHaven, Is f'V JGL 1 Whatever became of I.t.

Leon Gilbert, the Negro Army officer sentenced to death' by an Army court in 1950? sx iff mi I Li Zii'Wiii 1 a social worker in Baltimore. Another daughter, Susan, 23, does social work in a Maryland tal. Hippie Actor Quits Scene Seven "hippie types," hired in a tavern for $75 each, are being filmed for television commercials supporting U.S. Rep. Richard Roudebush, Eight hippies originally were cast but one quit while the film was being shot.

He said he found the'commercial repugnant. Roudebush seeks the Senate seat of Sen. Vance Hartke, a Democrat. Several scenes for the commercial, a reporter said, apparently were designed to show the hippies littering roadside According to Kevin Koch, 'the defecting actor, the hippies were filmed fake marijuana and drinking real wihe. Koch said the other hippies wanted to quit, too, but stayed on because "they needed the bread real bad." Turtle Farm Site Sought Harold Hlrth is looking for an island where he can raise green turtles and, do something about the twin problems of conservation and feeding an expanding population.

"The future is not in plain old conservation, but farming 'the turtle," said the ecologist from the University of Utah. He is touring parts of the South Pacific in search of a place to raise the rare turtles. His trip is sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Dr. Hirth said the average 200-pound green tur been without sufficient food or water for 13 days.

Gilbert, who had won two Bronze Stars for valor in World War II, took over the company when the commander was critically wounded, and the men held their ground against wave after wave of suicidal Korean and Chinese troops. Suddenly someone safety' behind the lines got the idea that Gilbert's outfit should go on the offensive. He was given an order to "move up" with a squad of 12 men. He refused the order. Later, at his trial, he said that such a move would have achieved nothing except certain death for his men.

The trial was held in a command post only 200 yards behind the front lines. Proceedings were repeatedly adjourned so witnesses could be called away from the fighting to testify. But somehow important eyewitnesses were overlooked, and somehow the eight judges all white also overlooked the testimony of three doctors who testified that Lt. Gilbert had been suffering from severe battle fatigue. He was sentenced to the firing squad.

Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP was sent to the Far East, where he asked General MacArthur to intervene. MacArthur delayed execution pending appeal, and in November Truman commuted the sentence. It was the only humane decision in the whole affair. According to Gilbert's aunt, he is still quite alive and living quietly with his family in his hometown of York, Pa. Under pressure from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and after an impassioned plea from the officer's wife, President Truman commuted the sentence to 20 years at hard labor and dismissal from the service.

Gilbert served four of those years before he was paroled in 1955. If Lt. Gilbert's "crime" had been committed in 1970 Vietnam instead of 1950 Korea, it is highly unlikely that he would have been court-martialed at all. He was convicted of disobeying an order in combat, but the order was unjust and the trial was a farce. Gilbert's company of 189 men had been caught in ceaseless, withering enemy fire for 20 days and nights in a row.

His men had If hr I imm a Kiiiin mnii Annum -ft i 1 -tr Phong Lan Kim Agnew 1.