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DETFOIT FREE PRESS SuMr 2 1 a '2 Bob Talbert's Detroit i mk 'ffri th 4 body admits to being this guy, but everyone admits to knowing him. My favorite episode was the one with Sammy Davis Jr. The one thing that is never sanctioned on our show is Archie getting away with his bigotry. Archie himself is too old, too far gone to change. But I think the young Archie can change.

That's what we hope." RANDY Paar, ack Paar's 21-year-old daughter, is now a researcher for NBC's "Today Show" and says she feels her father would never even consider going back on a regular nightly show: "He has all these ideas and often wishes he had an outlet for them, but I can remember him saying when Jti WlMimiL URSULA ANDRESS, one of the all-time great sex symbols, just filmed "Red Sun" with the No. 1 box office attraction in Europe, Charles Bronsnn, and can't understand censorship involved: "In one scene my blouse is open and my bosom is exposed. They cut that out, yet they leave in the violence scenes. The nude body is beautiful. There's nothing wrong with that, but physical violence is ugliest thing on earth" Edward G.

Robinson, an all-time film bad guy, says the current crusade against violence doesn't get him too excited: "The whole thing has been over-reacted and over-rrnphasized. Violence has always been a prevalent element in drama, and all the performing arts, even ballet. I guess it's paradoxical to say violence is entertaining, but it is practically impossible to create meaningful conflict without it. Excessive violence, which has become the object of fanatical scorn within and without the industry, is the last resort of the bankrupt producer, and poor writers, poor directors and poor actors. And as long as we are guided by the buck, nothing will sell like violence and sex because they are outlets for our most serious repressions." Charles Bronson took his shirt off in Spain and became an international star overnight a-la-Clint Eastwood.

Currently filming "The Valachi Papers" in Rome, he says "The Godfather" was the "most boring picture I have ever seen. I couldn't wati to get out of the theater I was so bored with it. The violence was cartoonery. It wasn't real. For violence to work it has to be authentic." Carroll O'Connor has had it with interviewers and the public demanding he "do" Archer Bunker.

It's as if they expect Bunker to really be O'Connor, who says, "I don't even have any friends like Archie. Look, Archie Bunker wouldn't have anything in common with Carroll O'Connor. I've never had an Archie in my family. In playing Archie, 1 rlon't draw from inside myself. I observe life and try to imitate.

I've known a lot of Archies and I hold a mirror up to them. No Success for Jay Armes is a 26-room mansion, nine cars and a backyard big enough for lions, cheetahs, elephanls Capers of a Millionaire Detective The name is Jay Armes His job: solving mysteries for other millionaires and movie stars. He's probably America's best private eye. His life is on the wild side. Ursula Robinson a normal day in his life.

He's-on call 24 hours. "If it's important and someone calls from mprsoac thfv ran rparh mft. any time of the day, any he left the 'Tonight Show' it was like being cured of cancer suddenly" Bob Mackle, Cher Bono's clothes designer who has dressed such stars as Lucille Ball, Liza Minnelli, Raquel Welch, Diana Ross, and Carol Burnett, says, "Some women have good legs. Some have good arms. Cher has the best navel in the business!" Stella Stevens has this modest appraisal of her talents: "I believe I am one of the three greatest actresses in films today.

The other two are Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman" Alan Sues says he won't return to "Laugh-In" next season because he feels he must get rid of the Big Al Dingaling image. iiuui The strangest case he ever handled he calls "The Case of the Onion King of NewMpx-' ico." "I got a visit from this 1 1 I 1 nr l.n. arounn ano sne saio sne, wanted to find out who had murdered her husband. Sotnp-one, she said, had pumped him full of bullets. I checked and discovered the guy the onion king was wounded but ya JiaHn'i- AnA cnntfi fn him in the hosnital and he told the wife had shot him after a quarrel.

"I told police this and they arrested my client. "But when the husband rt- June 18-24, 19 39 coverea ne nirea me to gee ner out of jail and come up with a out, took her home and she-tried to persuade me to stay the night. I said no, and I left." Boss of the EI Paso-based The Investigators, Armes says bluntly, "I'm worth several million. I'm not sure how much. There's my detective agency, plus investments in real estate and oil and a few other things.

He and his family live in a $12-million, four-acre estate In El Paso and he has turned his colonial modern, white pillared home into a virtual fortress. "I've got an electrified, 10-foot high iron fence to dissuade unwelcome callers," he grins. "Every inch of the house is scanned by closed circuit television cameras even the kids' bedrooms and nursery. "I can lie in bed and push buttons and have my bedside TV camera show me pictures, with zooming closeups, of anywhere. My home is impenetrable," he says proudly.

"No one gets In without my ok." Thn 26-room mansion has 30 phones and every day Armes is installing new burglary devices many his own invention and new electronic detection equipment. "Many people hate my guts. Look, I've put a lot of guys away in the penitentiary. "I've lost count of the number of times people have tried to assassinate me. "I RECKON that God is my bodyguard.

"At the end of every day I come home and pray to the Lord, thanking Him for letting me live another day. People think I'm kidding when I tell them I've served because of God's will. I believe that. I really do. I've got Him looking over my shoulder and I've developed this uncanny sixth sense.

1 know danger when it's around. I may have lost my touch but I have this extra feeling a kind of super sense." That super sense deserted him a few months ago. He was at the front gates of his mansion, shortly before midnight, about to climb out of the car to telephone to open the electric gates. Two men jumped out of the shadows. "They attacked me with wooden baseball bats.

I was in the seat and powerless even to pull my gVm. It all happened so fast. Standing up, I've taken five men and won, so I'm no But they had me pinned in the car seat. They hit me so hard and so viciously and so wildly that they shattered the windscreen and their blows even bent the Cadillac door. They left me unconscious.

Maybe something scared them off or they thought I was dead." He admits all this makes a normal home life hard to carry on, hut his wife Linda seems to like it. She sews, cooks and runs her home with a staff of ten. Armes likes to entertain friends. "It was tough at firs but it's his job," Linda says. Armes eats, sleeps and lives his job.

About the only time he relaxes is in his library when he reads the Bible. "It was a habit my mother taught me and it's good for relaxing," says Armes quite seriously. He has another hobby. Wild animals. He has built up a private menagerie of jungle beasts that would be the envy of many zoos.

Roaming wild in a fenced compound are lions, tigers, cheetahs, ostriches, chimpanzees and other exotic birds and animals. His backyard is landscaped, with specially imported African plants and bamboo huts to make the animals at home in the burning 100-degree weather. THERE'S NO such thing as trek back to California. He tried escape twice and once narrowly missed toppling off a high cliff. After crossing back into California, Armes hired a cab to Los Angeles.

Not until the boy was reunited with his father did he finally believe that Armes was helping him. FICTION usually portrays the private eye as a brawling boozer with a talent for smashing crooks and attracting girls. Fiction has a long way to go to match Jay Armes, the richest and probably the most outstanding private eye in America. Armes, 33, is a sharpshooter with pistol and machine gun, deadly in karate, a fitness fa-n a i who runs two miles every morning, swims 30 minutes, has won tennis tournaments, mastered sky diving and decpsea diving, holds a pilot license for planes or copters and likes to walk around his four-acre estate with a cheetah or a tiger on a short leash. Not much, you say? When Armes was 12, a friend handed him an object he'd picked up in a rail yard.

The device exploded. Both hands had to be amputated two inches above the wrist. "I remember that day well," says Armes, unemotionally. "I tried to climb to my feet after the explosion but there was nothing to push up with." TODAY HE is a rich man-not ruffled by much. He owns a helicopter and nine cars including two Cadillacs and a Rolls-Royce.

He has 250 suits, dozens of custom tailored shirts. Not all his wealth can come from detective work, but it has staked some of Armes' astute investments. i npn snp snoi nrrspu in int" stomach with a shotgun. She didn't do a good job. She went into the hospital hut didn't die.

Later, they were reconciled, and I guess they're living happily ever after." ARMES, WHO is a shade BY IVOR DAVIS Special to th Free Presi The case began with a long distance call from Marlon Brando. Picking up the phone with his steel claw, private eye Jay Armes listened attentively while Brando explained his problem. The actor said that he was engaged in a court fight with ex-wife Anna Kashfi over the custody of their son, Christian. Brando had reason to believe the boy had been kidnapped by agents working for Anna and he wanted the boy found and safely returned to him. Price, $25,000 and all expenses.

Armes made a few phone calls to friends at three Mexican border crossings before leaving his El Paso, Tex. home. From them, and from other clues he picked up after arriving in California Armes concluded that the abductors had already crossed the hor-d in a red Volkswagen, heading for Baja California. With an anxious Brando fearing for the boy's safety, Armes began his search. He figured that the abductors were not the types to stay in cities, much less hotels.

So he scoured campsites, piloting a jet helicopter by day and at night riding with a patrol of four Mexican Federal police. "I didn't eat or sleep. I just pressed on. I had some sticks of chewing gum and some boiled water with me, and that was it," says Armes. "But I never got hungry.

Somehow, I didn't need food." After three days of non-stop search, Armes spotted a red Volkswagen beside a rocky cave near the village of San Luis, some 400 miles below the Baja border. Armes parked a discreet distance and radioed the Mexican police. They charged in with guns drawn and quickly subdued the eight persons they found at the site. "I found the young Brando boy hiding in the corner of a tent. He looked undernourished and was ill, couldn't breathe well because of a sinus condition." The kidnappers reportedly told Armes they had been offered $20,000 to hide the boy for a few months.

Armes' troubles wertn't over. The Brando boy was confused and frightened on the JOAN CRAWFORD, SET TO MARRY 23-YEAR-OLD MODEL-HEIRESS FOURTH OF JULY TOUR TO NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR JUST $34.74 FOR FIVE DAY, ALL EXPENSE-PAID TRIP PRINCETON VOTES HITLER YEAR'S OUTSTANDINGWORLD PERSONALITY; NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, FDR TAKE RUNNER-UP HONORS FLARE SKIRTS, BIGGEST NEWS IN SWIM SUITS, JUST $3.95 I HUDSONS BASEMENT PARENTS OF CHILD STAR FREDDIE BAR-THOLEMEW FILE MILLION-DOLLAR SUIT AGAINST AUNT AND GUARDIAN; CHARGE FRAUD, CONSPIRACY DON AMECHE, LORETTA YOUNG, HANK f'ONDA STAR IN 'STORY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL' AT FISHER; 30 CENTS TILL 6 P.M. SENATORS PUSH AMENDMENT FOR SIX-YEAR LIMIT ON PRESIDENCY JURY HEARS CENSORED STORY OF LORETTA YOUNG WM. BUCKNER COURTSHIP LOU GEHRIG, 'THE IRON MUST QUIT BASEBALL CAREER DUE TO INFANTILE PARALYSIS INSIDERS SAY FDR HAT IS IN RING; PRESIDENT IS SILENT ANN SOTHERN STEALS SHOW IN NOW ON SCREEN AT MICHIGAN ACTOR FRANCHOT EX HUBBY OF unaer six icci ana weigns a muscular 175 pounds, actually began his career as an actor. He was signed to a Hollywood contract as a teenager and played war heroes in such films as "Am I "Sign of the Flame" with Richard Widmark, a Korean war story, and with Jack Webb.

"Even as a young man was making good says Armes, "maybe around $3700 a week. But 'l didn't like' the town and the kind of ppo-1 Clipper Jniliales Overseas Flights pie I met. So I quit, bought myself out of the contract, went back to school and got' myself a degree in criminology and psychology from New York Just barely out of his teens, he returned to El Paso, his trans-Atlantic survey planes once told me, 'I wish I could tell you something spectacular, hut I can't. The trip was just For the first time, I began to understand what he meant. Thirteen men and five women on the passenger deck slept, dined, read and watched the cloud country slip by until we reached Lisbon.

Answering from experience the question of what the trans-Atlantic air traveler will get for his $375 ticket, I would say that it is quick transportation plus sleep in berths so comfortable that he may oversleep and miss his breakfast. I'm told we flew 150 miles off the course around a storm, but I only know that I was still sleepy when we flushed a lovely group of islands out in midocean for a quick landing and refueling at the Azores. We passengers stayed aboard during the brief stop. Because of certain international restrictions, the Clipper remains here overnight and takes off for Marseilles tomorrow at 7 a.m. (E.S.T.) BY DEVON FRANCIS LISBON, June 18, 13.19 (AP) For the first time in the two-decade history of trans-Atlantic flying marked by heroism, success and disaster a commercial airplane today brought a cabinload of passengers from America to Europe.

With the ease of a train or a ship, the speedy Atlantic Clipper soared from the New World to the Old World with 18 newspaper reporters and radio men and 12 crew mem-lers the largest number of persons ever to cross the Atlantic by airplane. Capt. W. D. Culbertson settled the Clipper upon the wind-ruffled waters of the Tagus River just 23 hours and aO minutes out of New York, having flown 3,447 miles as measured by Pan American Airways at a speed of 152.4 miles an hour.

THE WHOLE preview trip, preceding hy II days the introduction of regular passenger service across the Atlantic, went off with tea-time casualnes. The skipper of one of Pan American's Brando had reason to believe his son had been kidnapped by agents working for his wife, Anna, and he wan led ihe boy found and safely returned lo him. Priec, $25,000 and all expenses. lll'lllVtVIMI, OlUl, kilt. tive agency.

Armes is proud of his achievements, and has no intention of changing. "See my house," he says proudly, "see my office, my operation and my lifestyle. I like to think of myself as an original." Happy Buyer Gets LBPs Mark III Whatever Happened to Sy Oliver? Thanks, Hobby High school principal Joe Gibson got a good deal on his used car. The 1971 Mark III has only 8,500 miles on it, an especially roomy front seat, an electronic gadget onds later to claim he had outdone the legendary Harry Houdini in escapes. "After I hit the water I opened my eyes and it was just black," Thatcher said.

"That made me want to get up even sooner. I didn't want to test my capacity, I just wanted to get out." io open tne garage door, a telephone jack and, inscribed on a gold plate on the glove compartment, the name of the previous owner: Lyndon B. Johnson. "I may keep it per-' manently and have it restored every five years," said Gibson happily. "When I pass nn I unnr rvw snn tn mm McCIoskeys Parting TWO YEARS ago, at 59, Sy Oliver jumped back into swing.

He had lived in Europe until 1969, where he had composed and arranged in Paris. Returning to New York, he started college "I took classes in psychology and philosophy but I got to thinking about what I was going to do with my life in the time I had left." The solution was to build a new swing band, "the thing I was best equipped to So he effortlessly put together nine instrumentalists all former top jazz musicians who were retired hut still had the pizazz to play. "They were looking for a rallying point, which was me. "This is the first time I've ever enjoyed playing. I'm not the only one my age in this country missing the kind of music he likes.

I know what I'm doing and I'm right. People are hungry for this music." Hp belonged to the heyday of the big bands: Trumpet player; composer; jazz arranger; "most brilliant arranger in jazz in 1939," as he was acclaimed for building the swing styles of the Jimmie Lunce-ford and Tommy bands. Rut Sy Oliver was also known for his volatile temper (a sample of his venom: "I kept a beer bottle under my chair, ready for anybody who wasn't playing my arrangements and frequently lost contracts. WHY WAS Oliver's temper so explosive? "I think I was angry largely because I was a Negro. I couldn't accept the fact 1 was supposed to have a special place," he now recalls.

He was born Melvin James Oliver in Battle Creek, on Dec. 17, 1910, but the Oliver family moved to Ohio when Sy was two. His professional career as a trumpet player started when World chess champion Boris Spassky not only likes his rival Bobby Fischer but figures he owes the American chess master "a big barrel of vodka." Spassky said his prestige in the Soviet Union has been so enhanced by Fischer's challenge that the Spassky family has been given a new apartment in Moscow's exclusive Podmoskovje suburb. "All my family consider we owe Bobby a big barrel of vodka," Spassky said. The blond, blue-eyed Spassky, 35, has a wife who works as a technician in a refrigerator plant, and two children aged five and 12.

Iowa Guard Gels Girl An 18-year-old girl has been sworn in as the first female member of the Iowa National Guard, but she says women's lib has nothing to do with it. "I decided about one month ago this is what I wanted to do and I am certainly not an advocate of women's lib," said Julie Anderson. "I believe any woman can do what a man can do in some special cases, and one of those is joining the National Guard." Adj. Gen. Joseph May said Miss Anderson's six-week basic training would be "very rigorous "Nothing can be as tough as losing 20 pounds to meet Guard requirements," said Miss Anderson.

Rep. Paul N- (Pete) McCloskey, and his wife have separated after 23 years of marriage. McCloskey's campaign manager and neighbor In Palo Alto, Albert R. Schreck, made the announcement. There is no report of any divorce action.

McCloskey, who' pulled out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after losing the New Hampshire primary, is now running for re-election. Schreck said both McCloskey and his wife, the former Caroline (Cubby) Wadsworth, "are exhausted after 16 months of campaigning, and we all regret very much that they've separated." The McCIoskeys have four children: Nancy, 21; Peter, 19; John, 17, and Kathy, 13. Back in swing again, Sy Oliver is "deliriously happy." he was 16. Soon after, he traveled for six years with Jimmy Lunceford's band. He had planned to enter college, but was offered an arranging position with Tommy Dorsey's orchestra at a $500 per week salary hike.

He postponed college and his name was legend from then on. have it and some day I think the car will be worth a lot of money." Gibson, a resident of Tulsa, arranged to buy the car for an undisclosed price through a nephew assigned to Johnson's Secret Service detail. "Mr. Johnson is a little sensitive about who gets his cars," said Gibson. "He wants to be sure it's someone who will take care of them." Get Me Oul of Here! Escape artist Tom Thatcher, 23, wrapped in chains and padlocks, dived into the muddy Mississippi River at Burlington, and surfaced 20 sec-.