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ir'iiiliJl: I lie iwO'L ambauffii ives Blue Knight and time Writer Bis Bob Talbert's Detroit I VA C7 Onc lime Kalk and 1 were making' this arroL and a mean-looking crowd galliered. Kalk pills the guy into the ear and just before Kalk gets in. he takes a sweep of the crowd and goes 'Dom, J)a Dum Dum- very glamorous viewing. Wussler feels George McGovern "has the nomination pretty well sewn up, but because he comes from outside of the party and not the center, it is conceivable that he might not get the nomination." Wussler, who's covered every space shot and made the recent Presidential trip to China, says this year's convention coverage by the 'three networks will probably cost more than the $20 million spent in '68. HOW DOES WUSSLER and CBS-TV plan to handle the protestors? "We will cover them if they become newsworthy and only then.

We aren't covering any protest just for a i fyr 11 r. r-Vvii 4 if I' I tc jcr' "TELEVISION BRINGS a course, primitive quality to an election. In the old days the tribes would gather together and hear their leaders. Then they'd bang their spears on their shields. The one who got the most noise won.

That's what television does. It produces one big tribal confrontation of two leaders." Author-historian Theodore "As a reporter who has enjoyed the dubious fate of covering Presidential nominating conventions since 1948, I find each one filled with exquisite agony of the same resounding cliches, the same Irish tenors, the same blinding footlights, the same deafening loudspeakers, the same poisonous, species of hot dogs and soft drinks and myself filled with a sense of throbbing wonder that the system is as durable and efficient as it is." CBS-TV News Commentator Eric Se-vareid. ROBERT WUSSLER, a man who sits in the control booth of history, would probably second the above political-description nominations. The 35-year-old network executive producer and director of the CBS News Special Events Unit says television coverage of political conventions is increasingly popular because "a 'happening event' is what television is all about and too often these 'happening events' are also national tragedies. The conventions occur every four years, and four years in this business is like a generation and a half.

It's a new event." WHETHER the Democratic Convention this month and the Republican in August will be "memorable news events" depends on if a major story happens, Wussler feels. It's possible that there could be two very dull conventions his summer. "A major story," Wussler says, "is a darkhorse getting the Presidential nomination." IF THE DARKHORSE fails to come in, Wussler says the Democratic story will be the redefinition of the Democratic party, what it means through reform measures and platform planks. Admittedly, this won't be Wussler Cronklte 1 -Vf hl ITlllil till ffl fcfl 'Hurt iMjlHfflliiii Photo by LESTER SLOAN Newsweek the sake of the numbers ratings," he says, adding that he feels there will be more demonstrations at the GOP convention later in the summer. WUSSLER FEELS the Republican convention may not be as bland as most people imagine a convention of an incumbent President to be.

"A lot of what the Republican convention is to be, will be determined by what happens at the Democratic convention. And a whole lot can happen to the world in two months' time, too." The Emmy-winning Wussler says that his 'biggest kick as a producer comes at the convention "because you have the full sense of pulling all the strings together and making it work." Partners in crime (fighting it, that is) Joseph Wambaugh, sergeant with the Los Angeles Polite Department (right) and Dick Kalk. They've carried that partnership on into the bigtime Joe as a best-selling writer and Dick as an actor in the film version of Joe's book "The New Centurions." But a day on the beat is far from the Hollywood world: "You know," says Wambaugh, "being a cop is not what I would call a glamorous trade. And do you know why? Because we're repressers of freedom. Because when cops come calling, they hardly ever bring good news." "I'll take it up with your father," said Wambaugh.

"Have' him call me at this numbpr when he gets in, OK?" He pro-ferred a card. The boy took the card nnd slammed the door. Wambaugh shook his head at Kalk. "You know," he said, "being a cop is not what I would call a glamorous trade. And do you know why? Re-cause we're basically repressers of freedom.

Like that kid now just because I carry a badge, he looks at me and deals with me with distaste, It's because when cops come calling, they hardly ever bring good news." "Well, Sherlock," he said to Kalk, who was already behind the wheel, "where to?" KALK ENUMERATED choices. There was the hospital, where an elderly Chinese grocer lay in critical condition, shot in a robbery. Wambaugh discounted that. "I was up there yesterday, and we don't have an interpreter, and the guy doesn't speak any English." Then there was the courthouse downtown, where they were needed that afternoon as witnesses. And finally, there were several collections to be made kind reminders to people who had skipped from gas stations without paying for their gas.

Kalk opted for the latter. Wambaugh and Kalk banter like a pair of comfortable old marrieds. They've been partners four years, and hang out together both on and off the job. Kalk says prnudfy that even if Joe's a writer, he's a superstar actor, and displays his Screen Actors Guild card, which he got as the reult nf a role in the movie of "The New Centurions." "He's also," says Wambaugh, "the only officer on the force to have Daily Variety delivered to the stationhouse." "You just wait, Joe," says Kalk, "until they ask me to star in 'The Blue KnighC.Tbst part's me it's me." "I got to sell it said Wambaugh. "See, that's part of the prob-lem.

It's hard to put in a full day, then write all night, and still be back at the station before eight in the morning. When I was a part-time writer and a full-time cop, things were easy. Now, though, I don't see my wife and kids as much as I should, and there are other things to consider. Like TV series, and selling 'The Blue Knight. "But I love being a cop.

I've got eight years to go until I get my pension, and I'd like to be able to go all the way. Kalk pulls up at a frame house off Central Avenue and opens his door. "I'll tell you what," he growls affably at Wambaugh, "you make up your mind 1 a r. Me; I'm gonna go collect me some gas money right now. Wanna help?" "You betchum," says Wambaugh.

"And I'll tell you we'll have lunch at the Brown Derby today, and- see if they'll make you some lox tacos." BY JOHN WE1SMAN FntPreti Staff Wrlitr Joe Wambaugh may be a successful author whose first novel, "The New Centurions" sold more than 300,000 copies. But to a distraught Chicano mother in East Los Angeles, whose son had been beaten up by a gang which then stole the boy's bicycle, he was just a nice, concerned cop who sat in the crowded livingroom of her hot, stucco bungalow and talked to her in soft-voiced Spanish, inquiring politely about the condition of her boy. To the Maitre Hollywood's chic Brown Derby, Joe Wambaugh is a bigtime writer, whose book is coming out as a movie which stars George C. Scott this August, and who enjoys an occasional lunch at the Derby with his partner in crime (investigation) Dick Kalk. For more than a year now, Sgt.

Joseph Wambaugh, day watch, burglary division, Hollenheck precinct, has been living a dual existence. The 12-year veteran spends his days chasing felons, and his nights being feted as a celebrity who appears on Johnny Carson, who writes articles for the New York Times on police matters, and whose second novel, "The Blue Knight" is doing mighty respectably on best seller lists. The slim, thin-haired 38-year-old writer-policeman is faced with the problem of whether he is, indeed, a writer or a cop. A year ago Wambaugh considered himself a cop who wrote in his spare time. Now, though, he feels that it's becoming harder to do both things, and do them well.

"AT FIRST it was easy," he says, shuffling through a two-inch thick folder of robbery and arrest reports at Hollen-beck Station's briefing room. "When 'Centurions' became a success, my life changed a bit, but not much. "I took my family to Hawaii for our vacation, instead of Mar Vista or Disneyland, because my two sons wanted to fly somewhere, and for the first time I could afford to take them. And my wife, Dee, who edited both books, is buying things retail, now, instead of relying on a policeman's discount. And we've got a new car a Cadillac in police colors black and white instead of my beat-up VW, and a new house.

"But lately I've felt' that queasiness inside me that rumbles 'it's time to write another And when that happens, I don't know how I'll finally deal with it." Outside the room an explosive shriek is followed by a hysterical scream, and a series of hiccupping, empty-stomached sobs. Wambaugh looks up from his reports. "That's a baddie" be nods past the door, wrinkling his nose. "That kind of crying ain't 'Johnny got it's 'Johnny got a d' sobbing. You get to know these things after a while." Outside in the precinct park- I July 2-8, 1926 i JITNEY DRIVERS TO FIGHT A ON "STREET BUSES SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE KING ALFONSO OF SPAIN FOURTH OF JULY SPECIAL: MENS TWO-PIECE BATHING SUITS, $5.50 TO $7.50 AT SOPHIE TUCKER, TED LEWIS STAR WITH 60 OF AMERICA'S TOP MODELS IN 'RUFUS LAMAIRE'S AFFAIRS' BLOOD CLOTS IN RIGHT LEG PULL BABE RUTH OUT OF YANK LINE-UP INDEFINITELY HOLIDAY PICNICKERS WARNED TO KEEP RUM AT HOME OR FACE ARREST MONROE BARBERS ARGUE TO HIKE HAIRCUT COST TO 75 CENTS, SHAVE TO 35 CENTS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE PRESENTED 50-POUND CAKE FOR 54TH BIRTHDAY LT.

COMMANDER RICHARD E. BYRD WELCOMED TO BOSTON FOR SPEECH THOUSANDS OF DETROITERS GREET OVERLAND WHIPPETS SHOWN IN WILLYS AUTO SHOWROOM CONGRESSIONAL PUSH ON TO ADOPT 'STAR SPANGLED BANNER' AS NATIONAL ANTHEM 0 EVANGELIST AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHER-SON RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES AFTER PURPORTED ABDUCTION French Connection," "I never had to sell suits to make my reputation as a cop." "Hey, that's right," laughs Wambaugh. "I used to sell suits. Right out of the back of an old stationwagon. You know, I'd drive up to a station, and open the tailgate, and cops would flock into the parking lot they'd be pulling pants and jackets on right over their uniforms." "Now you ain't 1 1 1 n' suits," says Kalk.

"You got a nice little hustle that works. It's called writing bestsellers, and bein' a friend of our Chief Ed Davis." "WHEN 'Centurions' first came out," I "got embroiled with the office of Ed Davis over whether or not a policeman could publish something without the department's prior approval and consent." The issue was raised just he-fore the publication of "The New Centurions," when Davis objected to some incidents in the book, notably a passage in which one of Wambaugh's protagonists falsifies an arrest record to obtain a conviction. "Liars and perjurers in my department," the chief is reported to have written loftily, "are cast out!" "I think," says Wambaugh, as Kalk sweeps the car in a neat two-wheel drift around a corner, hat the problem arose because 'Centurions' depicted cops as human beings, and not as the robots people are accustomed to seeing on television shows about policemen." When "Centurions" became a best seller, though, Davis changed his view toward the LAPD's writer-detective. ing lot, Hick Kalk is on his hands and knees looking at. identification stickers a row of uriiTKirked'cars.

FINALLY, Dick Kalk fits a key with a lock, and he and Wambaugh settle in the front seat of an olivc-drah Plymouth. "Well, buddy," says Kalk, gunning the car onto First Street at a conservative 50 miles per hour, to?" et's check on this guy Fernandez," says Wambaugh. "It says here that he took a ladyfriend to a bar, and when she came hack from a trip to the rest room, he was gone." "Big deal Sgt. Friday. So what?" "So what?" "So," Wambaugh pauses melodramatically, "was her pocketbook." "Dom, Da Dum Dum," in-, tones Kalk.

"You Wambaugh $ays, turning around in the front seat, "one time Kalk and I were making this arrest, and a crowd gathered around the suspect's house, you know? They were between us and the radio, and we had the guy cuffed, and were walking him out of the house to the car. Well the crowd must have been ,10 people or so, were mean-looking and just as quiet as could he. Quiet but nasty. Anyway, Kalk here, he puis the guy into the back scat of the car, and I get In the front, and just before Kalk gets in, he takes a big wide sweep of the crowd with that kisser of his and goes 'Dom, Da Dum" just like on TV. "At least," says Kalk, who is handling the car much like Gene Hackman in "The Wambaugh's second novel, "The Blue Knight," was submitted to the chief's office when it was still In galleys, and received Davis' approval in two days.

"He even wanted to make us public relations officers," says Kalk. "I took one look at those downtown offices, though, and had to split. After all. superstar suprrsleuths like Joe and me belong on the streets, where people can recognize us." "Yeah," Wambaugh laughed, "we're great undercover cops now, what with Kalk in the movie of 'Centurions' and my picture on two books. "Even so, I love the street." "And the food," drooled Kalk.

"Tacos, blintzes, bagels, sushi Hey Joe, let's have lunch when we finish here. I'd like some lox tacos on pumpernickel tortillas, with a side of sour cream." KALK PULLED to a stop on a sidestreet, and he and Wambaugh got out and went to the door of a nondescript lime-'green cottage. Wambaugh rang the bell while Kalk waited. A boy in his early teens came to the doorway and asked what Wambaugh and his partner wanted. Joe flipped back his coat, revealing the large L.A.P.D.

badge that sits on his belt. "It's police, son," he said. "We want to ask your father some questions. Is he home?" "No," said the teenager. "And what do you want, anyway?" There was resentment to his tone, and he closed the loor halfway.

Book Tower lo Be Tallest in World DETROIT, July 2, of the World's tallest building, 81 stories above the street level at Washington Boulevard, State Street and Park Place, began yesterday with the razing of several landmarks that have oc-upied the site for many years. The Book Tower, as it will be known, will be S73 feet high, nearly inn feet taller than the Woolworth building in New York, and comprise 23 more floors. It will bring to realization the progressive vision and years of constructive energy on the part of a Detroiter who already has been prominently identified with some of the largest structures in the city J. B. Book Jr.

The building will provide 1,765,000 square feet of floor space. It will be constructed according to the plans of Louis Kamper, architect, and Paul L. Hamper, associate, who designs for the Book interests. IN ALL, THE new tower will have 85 floors, four of which will be below the street level. The main portion of the building will he 43 stories high, with each floor providing 30,000 square feet of space.

From that point, the tower will continue upward, terminating at the 81st story with the largest searchlight in the world. A special structure is designed for the light, which will supposedly be visible for 75 miles. The design is modern Gothic, to be con-structed of steel and concrete, granite, stonp and marble combined with light buff-colored brick. Other tall structures in the class of the new Book Tower are the Metropolitan Life building, 702 feet; Singer building, 612 feet; Municipal building, 560 feet; and the Banker's Trust building, 539 feet; all are located in New York City. The only structure in the world which exceeds the tower in height is the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 999 feet high.

However, it Is not a building, but a steel frame. Fischer Asks 2-Day Delay in Match Whatever Happened to Sally Rand? Mm -T- (VST. ii-fy'J? Ridge, believes the. Dutch painter suf: fered from chronic glaucoma, an eye disorder that distorted his perception of color and light. Van Gogh also suffered from an emotional disorder which led to his suicide.

Maire specu--lates that, his awareness of his impending blindness triggered the depression that drove the painter to suicide. Looking al Love Memo to President Nixon: How about a White House Conference on Love? "We've had high-level meetings on just about every other subject," said Dr. George. R. Carpenter, a sociology professor at the.

University of Nevada in Las Vegas. "What" could be more important than love?" "People believe love resembles a cloud of rose-perfumed mist that without reason or logic moves down upon some lucky couple. That idea is not only an illusion, it's dangerous and has wrecked thousands of lives," he said. "People who depend on nothing more than, romantic decorations are building their lives, on butterfly wings. They're sure to be Whiz Bobby Fischer has asked Tor a two-day postponement, of his world championship match with Boris Spassky of Ihe Soviet Union.

Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer, said Saturday in Reykjavik. If granted, the match would start on Tuesday instead of Sunday in Iceland's capital. Davis pleaded fatigue on the American chess player's part. The Soviet news agency Tass said Fischer had been waging a war of nerves against Spassky, "But it is Fischer himself who seems to be unnerved," Tass claimed. But lawyer Davis said Fischer, a member of a fundamentalist sect, would not travel from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, and blamed reporters for preventing Fischer's departure last Thursday.

When will the match begin? That remains to be hammered out by Davis, Max Euwe, president of the International Chess federation, and Icelandic chess officials. Illness, not Genius? It wasn't just genius that made Goya and Van Gogh great artists ft was lead poisoning and glaucoma. That's the diagnosis, anyway, of a pair of doctors quoted tft a recent Issue of "The Sciences," publish! by the New York Academy of Sciences. The early pnlnt(ng of Spain's Francisco World's Fair, her acclaim was instant and international. She made a success in movies, asking and getting contracts.

Her dances demonstrated her ballet background. She'd never inject a bump, a grind or other movement symbolic of strip dancing. The furor following her was furious, hut it was always accidental if anyone caught more than a glimpse of her trim little body behind her constantly moving fans unless it was during one of her fast, outward flourishes at the finale. Sally Rand is now 68 but still plucky as ever. She performs actively, touring the U.S.

about 40 weeks out of the year. You can watch Sally wave her fans in person starting appropriately enough) July 4 during a limited engagement here in the Detroit area. She'll do two shows nightly at the Royal Ascot Club at 1200 Southfield Rnad In Lincoln Park, The lady in the feathers was the daredevil of her day as she pranced and danced naked behind her famous giant ostrich fans. That was in the early Thirties, and many legal cases (and rlothing) have been dropped since then. But Sally Rand is still going strong, feathers and all.

MISS RAND became one of the most glamorous attractions in show biz after her big debut at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. She stunned Depression-era crowds with her svelte dance routines, accom-'panied by swirling, elaborate fans blue lights and classical music (De Busscy's "Clair de I.une" and Chopin's "Waltz in Sharp Born in the Missouri Ozarks In 1904, Sally began taking' ballet lessons at age eight, and left ichool for an acting career ulU Mr first play In Chicago fold! the Depression hit, 99 hi took a Job In a speak- Fan dancer Sally Rand: Still pushing the plumes at 68. Goya (I74fi-IR2R) were pleasant and pastoral. But after bouts of illness which impaired his halance, hearing, speech and vision and left him partially paralyzed. Goya ahrupty changed to the dark, savage style for which he is famous, depicting scenes of human cruelty and vice.

Dr. William G. Niederland, clinical professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York, thinks that the painter contracted lead poisoning from a pigment known as flake white, a lead carbonate which Goya used by the tubful and smeared on his canvases with sponges, rags, brushes and trowel. Neiderland thinks the illness was responsible for the periodic spells of depression that changed Goya's artistic outlook. The most vigorous paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) are characterized by whirling halos surrounding any source of light, whether the sun or a lamp but the halos appear only in his later paintings.

Dr. Frederick W. Malre, medical director of a state home and training (school in Wheat m. easy. While seeking a costume for her new job, she found two ostrich feathers in an obscure little shop.

She recalled the. first purchase: "I bought the fans on credit for J250. Then I went to the club and choreographed th dance with them." After her appearance at the.