Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 273, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 July 1979 — Page 11

People in the news

No college cash, she sues her dad When Adrienne Zimmerman of Great Neck, N.Y., entered Adelphi College in 1975, she said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, she had an "oral contract” with her father under which he agreed to pay all of her college and law-school expenses. But, the 21-year-old would-be lawyer said in her court papers, her father, Theodore Zimmerman, paid only her first year at Adelphi and is $6,700 in arrears for the .’following two years. < Zimmerman, a Manhattan lawyer, said he would have no on his daughter’s suit, filed in State Supreme jCourt in Manhattan. * In the suit Miss Zimmerman maintained that her father --could easily afford her education expenses on his annual earnings of more than $50,000. Her mother is unable to foot the bills. Miss Zimmerman said, because her father is $15,000 in arrears in his alimony. The Zimmermans were separated in January 1976. Miss Zimmerman, who said she hoped to attend Brooklyn Law School, asked the court to make her father pay the back tuition, or to grant her $500,000 in damages. • SOLED AD, Calif. (AP) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the * convicted assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who says he has been offered asylum in Libya, has been given a fourmonth reduction in his prison sentence for good behavior. As a result of Tuesday’s routine parole board review, Sirhan’s tentative parole date is now Nov. 1, 1984. Under California’s determinate sentencing law, his life sentence originally carried a parole date of March 1, 1985. Sirhan, thin and appearing nervous, took issue with the board over whether he shot up to five bullets that struck Kennedy and bystanders in the kitchen of Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. “My hands were grabbed and held very forcefully by some monster-sized men ” Sirhan said. "I don’t remember the actual happening. A melee followed ... I don’t feel myself to be responsible beyond that first shot.” Both Sirhan, a Palestinian refugee born in Jordan, and his lawyer reported Libya’s offer and said the ArabAmerican Committee had offered to feed and house him if he is released. Although celebrities frequently hop around the world to relax, Phyllis Diller and Bob Hope prefer their own backyard Miss Diller says her favorite vacation spot “is filled with books and surrounded by acres of grass and flowers. And the meals there are simply fabulous.” The comedian explains that after traveling half of every year for work, she prefers to stay home in Los Angeles. Hope said, “I’ve traveled over 2 million miles and that’s just between airports. My favorite spot is Palm Springs and I think the reasons are obvious.” Golf and good weather. HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Edward Asner, Meredith BaxterBirney and Anne Jackson star in the CBS movie “The rFamily Man,” now in production in New York. Glenn Jodan, who directed “Family” and “Les Miserables,” directs from a script by William Hanley who wrote “Too. Far to Go.” It is adapted from the novel “The Monogamist,” i>y James Gallagher.

House Call

'Hockey skin rash' not hokey

BjvG. Timothy Johnson, M.D. t3>ear Dr. Johnson: Is it true that hockey players’ skin rashes can be caused by hockey sticks? I saw this somewhere recently. I’m an amateur hockey player and I’ve had a lot of problems with skin rashes. -- Bruce D., Worcester, Mass. Dear Bruce: That phrase, skin rash, can be applied to all sorts of skin problems, including the classical kinds such as allergic reactions or eczema. In recent years, interest has increased in skin rashes that seejm to be unique to hockey players. Some of these rashes are so disabling that a few professional players have had to quit the game temporarily. In response, a Boston dermatologist, Dr. William Gallagher, came up with a theory based on his investigation of skin rashes among the Boston Bruins. He suspects that some rashes are caused by fiber glass particles that come off during the shaving or reshaping of hockey sticks. Most professionals shave or grind their stick blades to get better performance. In the process, they often spread fiber glass particles over themselves and their equipment. Gallagher’s theory may not explain all skin rashes, but it seems to make a lot of sense. Many dermatologists are basing treatment in some cases on the suspicion that fiber glass particles are indeed the culprit. The answer is to eliminate stick-shaving, but that may not be easy. Gallagher also has used plain vaseline on players’ skin. It helped in some cases. Dear Dr. Johnson: Can Hodgkins disease be caught from someone else? -- Mrs. Carole H., Oxon Hill, Md. Dear Carole: I’m a bit

curious why you asked that question. I’m assuming you’ve heard reports that Hodgkins disease -- a type of cancer involving lymphatic tissues - is suspected of being transmitted by some infectious agent. The suspicion is based on reports of a higher-than-expected number of cases found among specific groups of people. One such report involved students at some high schools on Long Island, N. Y., in 1971 and ’72. The rumor has spread since. Very recently, however, a group of Harvard researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on a very thorough study of students at-

B. J. Becker

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GARY COLEMAN: Big ideas

LOS ANGELES (AP) Gary Coleman, the 11-year-old star of the hit NBC series “Diff’rent Strokes,” is holding up the show. The start of production for the second season of the series has been delayed again because Coleman failed to show up for work in a dispute over pay and benefits. He reportedly wants $15,000 an episode, almost ten times the $1,600 he’s now getting. He also wants a guard. Coleman stayed away from the set Monday, just as he has since the series was scheduled to begin production July 16. The young star and his parents are being sued by the series’ producers, Tandem Productions, for breach of contract for allegedly refusing to acknowledge Tandem’s second year option on Coleman to play Arnold Jackson in “Diff’rent Strokes.” • LONDON (AP) Actors and actresses mingled Tuesday with showgirls, ballerinas and impresarios, slowing traffic to a crawl in Piccadilly, as 3,000 British entertainers gathered to protest the theater policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government. The mile-long procession Tuesday from Hyde Park Corner to the royal opera house at Covent Garden was organized by the actors’ union, Equity, to protest cuts in government subsidies and an across-the-board increase in sales tax. Among the participants was Susan Hampshire, star of the television series “The Forsyte Saga.” “The Scrooge-like cuts by the government will only worsen what is already a critical situation,” said Sir Ralph Richardson, 76-year-old stage star and veteran of more than 42 British and Hollywood movies. • A. James Manchin, secretary of state of West Virginia, has called on Savoy Records of Elizabeth, N.J., to “immediately recall” a record album with the title (hold your breath) “Myrna Summers and Singers Recorded Live at the Federal Correctional Institution at Alderson, Virginia.” What troubles Manchin about the title is its geography. Alderson is not in Virginia, but West Virginia, a fact that moved Manchin to say: “The management of Savoy Records must be comprised of golden oldies bom before 1863 when the great state of West Virginia hit the charts of American freedom.”

tending Boston-area high schools. Their study refutes the idea that Hodgkins disease is spread by some agent. The authors of the report state: “In conclusion, the present findings, and those of other recent studies, suggest that direct person-to-person transmission of an etiologic agent for Hodgkins disease is unlikely.” Dear Readers: A note from the U.S. Consumer Produce Safety Commission warns that kites made with aluminized polyester plastic film are dangerous. It turns out that these kites conduct electricity if they get tangled up in power lines. So,

certain way for you to make the contract, assume that they lie that way. If the cards must lie a certain way for your contract to be in danger, assume that they lie that way (and take the appropriate precautions).” This very sound advice appears in Marshall Miles’ book titled “All Fifty-two Cards.” The California star illustrates the first part of the quotation by citing this deai where South, obviously a nut so far as using Blackwood is concerned, gets to six clubs. When dummy comes down it is plain to see that the slam is virtually sure to fail. The odds strongly favor losing a diamond and either one or two heart tricks. Nevertheless, there is a chance for the slam if the adverse cards are divided favorably. This possibility can take only one form West must have precisely three spades to the king.

check your kites, folks, and be careful. (Knowing what to do and what not to do is the secret of living with arthritis. Dr. Johnson’s comprehensive guide, “Coping with Arthritis,” explains the why, when and how of medication, exercise and rest programs. For a postpaid copy, send $1.75 to “Arthritis,” c/o this newspaper, P. 0. Box 259, Norwood, N. J. 07648. Make checks payable to Newspaperbooks.)

In line with this thought, South wins the heart lead, finesses the jack of spades, ruffs a spade, and plays the AK of trumps. When he then leads the ace of spades, flooring the king, he is able to discard his three heart losers on dummy’s spades and so make the slam. He loses only a diamond trick. Note that you cannot divide the spades any other way and make the contract. It would not help your cause to find either defender with the singleton or doubleton king, because you must make four spade tricks to land the contract, and nothing less than that will do the job. Faced with this requirement, declarer should shape his play so as to fit the only distribution that will allow the slam to be made. As Julius Ceasar might have said: “Nil desperandum!”

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