Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 92, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 December 1979 — Page 8

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People in the news INI.Y. critics like Hoffman, Field NEW YORK "Kramer vs. Kramer,” Robert Benton’s film about a couple battling for custody of their son, was voted best picture of 1979 by the New York Film Critics Circle Wednesday Dustin Hoffman, who stars in that film, was cited as best actor and Sally Field was voted best actress for "Norma Rae.” Meryl Streep was named best supporting actress for her work in both "Kramer vs. Kramer” and “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” and Melvyn Douglas was voted best supporting actor for his role in “Being There.” Woody Allen was named best director for “Manhattan.” The award for the best screenplay went to Steve Tesich, for “Breaking Away.” The citation for foreign-language film went to the Italian "The Tree of Wooden Clogs.” The 26 members of the critics’ group are allowed one vote each on a first ballot. If no candidate receives a majority, the members then list their top three choices, allotting them three points, two or one point. This year’s only first-ballot choice was in the actor category, with 13 votes for Hoffman. The closest runner-up was Peter Sellers of "Being There,” with three votes. There were two votes for Nick Nolte of “North Dallas Forty." Among those receiving one vote each were Robert Duvall of “Apocalypse Now,” Peter Falk of “The InLaws," Burt Reynolds of “Starting Over” and Ben Gazzara of "Saint Jack.” Miss Field was voted best actress with 42 votes. Runnersup included Bette Midler, with 34 points for “The Rose,” Hanna Schygulla of “The Marriage of Maria Braun” (31), Nathalie Nell of “Rape of Love” (13), Diane Keaton of “Manhattan” (8) and Mary Beth Hurt of “Head Over Heels” (5). The best-picture award went to “Kramer vs. Kramer” with 30 points. Runners-up were “Breaking Away” (29), “Manhattan” (26), “All That Jazz” (17), “10” (13) and “Being There” (11). • NEW YORK (AP) Actress Jane Fonda has joined another political activist, singer Anita Bryant, as one of Good Housekeeping magazine’s 10 “most admired women” a list that includes three first ladies. Miss Bryant tops the list, to be published in the magazine’s January issue, for the third straight year. Miss Fonda and another newcomer, actress Katharine Hepburn, bumped Muriel Humphrey and Queen Elizabeth II in the latest reader poll. The full line-up includes: Miss Bryant; former first lady Pat Nixon; social and religious leader Mother Teresa of India ; former first lady Betty Ford, opera singer Beverly Sills, first lady Rosalynn Carter, Miss Hepburn, fomer Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan, conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly, and Miss Fonda. • It was her lawyers, “the best in the world,” who were credited by Arlene Crane for her acquittal Tuesday in McLean, Va. Mrs. Crane, wife of Rep. Philip M. Crane of Illinois, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, had been charged with failing to have the family’s Labrador retriever confined for rabies observation after the dog bit a 6-year-old boy. But some credit for the verdict could be claimed by 19-year-old Catherine Crane, one of the Cranes’ seven daughters. She testified that it was she, not her mother, who was responsible for the dog.

House Call No scientific proof for claim

By G. Timothy Johnson. M.D. Dear Dr. Johnson: What do you think of recent reports that drinking tea with lemon causes cancer? - Sylvia G., Longmont, Wash. Dear Sylvia: Those “recent reports” you’re referring to didn’t say that drinking tea with lemon causes cancer. The question, which caused a brouhaha in the media, stems from a letter published in the Nov. 1, 1979, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The letter was written by Dr. Michael Phillips of the University of Connecticut Health Center. He described a personal experience that occurred while he was drinking his tea - with lemon - from a polystyrene (plastic) cup. He noticed that the cup “was dissolving before my eyes, and even perforating ip places.” This discovery led him to conduct an experiment in which he studied the effects of tea and lemon in eight polystyrene cups, compared with tea without lemon juice. Phillips reported that all of the cups with tea and lemon showed erosion, while those containing only tea did not. He then assumed -- and I stress the word “assumed” -- that such erosion was caused by the polystyrene dissolving. And, since polystyrene has been found possibly carcinogenic -- cancer causing - when placed under the skin of laboratory animals, this suggested that drinking tea with lemon from such cups could be potentially dangerous. Phillips’ concluding sentence declares"l suggest that the time is how right to return to the tradition of drinking lemoned tea from cups of fine bone china

-- a practice with more aesthetic appeal and less potential hazard.” Such a conclusion is a far cry from true scientific proof that drinking tea with lemon from polystyrene cups causes cancer. Indeed, I’d be very surprised if we eventually demonstrated that this is fact. Still, it is worth study. My guess is that several scientific laboratories are already looking into this question. In the meantime, if you have any concern about this possible problem, drink your lemoned tea from fine bone china - or crockery. Dear Readers: I must share with you the results of a study on alcoholism in men under 35. It was reported in a recent issue

B.J. Becker The mandatory falsecard

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JAMES GARNER: Advised to rest LOS ANGELES (AP) James Garner has been sick for nearly a month, and the star of NBC’s “The Rockford Files” television series isn’t sure what’s wrong with him, his manager said. “He is not well, not well enough to work,” Meta Rosenberg said Wednesday. “We are shut down. “My own feeling is that he’s not in the throes of a terminal illness,” she added. The 52-year-old actor underwent a battery of tests at San Diego’s Scripps Clinic last week and was waiting at his Los Angeles home for doctors to pinpoint his trouble. He was ill before he went to Hawaii for location shooting in October and he caught a flu virus there, said Ms. Rosenberg.“ The Scripps doctors advised him to rest. His own physician and the studio physician told him to take it easy,” she said. • The city fathers in Braselton, Ga., (pop. 550) are all brothers, uncles and cousins, and now a municipal election scheduled for Jan. 3 has been called off because Mayor J. L. Braselton and City Councilmen H. B. Braselton, H. F. Braselton, H. H. Braselton and H. E. Braselton have nobody running against them. They also hold all the offices of the Braselton Banking Co., the Braselton Shopping Center and the Braselton Improvement Co., which owns several thousand acres and builds houses on the lots it sells. Since the mayor’s grandfather founded the town 103 years ago, every mayor has been a Braselton. The incumbent, who is 79, has served 23 years. Three years ago, however, Mayor Braselton had to contend with a political challenge for his job from a woman, Wynell Braselton. She’s the wife of his nephew, Royce Braselton, the postmaster. • BALTIMORE (AP) After seven years, Arthur Bremer, the man convicted of the crippling assassination attempt on former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, is no longer considered a maximum security risk and has been relocated to a less guarded facility. A 1 Herndon, deputy state corrections commissioner said Wednesday that Bremer, who is serving a 63-year sentence for the May 1972 shooting, has made satisfactory progress and officials at the state penitentiary here believe 24-hour observation is no longer required. Bremer, 28, was moved recently to the Maryland Correctional Institution.

of a British medical journal, The Lancet. The study was done in Copenhagen, Denmark, and involved 37 alcoholics, all under 35. All were examined for signs of liver damage and brain damage. The results, as summarized in The Lancet, follow: “Prevalence of brain damage in this group was far greater than that of severe liver damage; 59 per cent were intellectually impaired ... where only 19 per cent had cirrhosis.” We often assume that liver damage is the earliest, most important injury caused by heavy drinking. This new study suggests, however, what many people have long suspected: that intellectual deterioration begins

that must be made as a matter of self protection. The opportunity to make such plays called mandatory falsecards seldom arises, but when it does it may well prove suicidal to fail to falsecard. Here is a typical case. East, the hero of this piece, is defending against four hearts and wins the third round of spades with the ace. He returns a club, which South wins in dummy with the queen. Declarer returns the four of hearts and our hero, East, plays the king on it, not the ten. When South wins the king with the ace and returns a low trump, West following low, South comes face to face with a difficult problem. If he assumes the king is a singleton, it becomes vital to play the nine from dummy to

even earlier than liver damage, and that it’s an important early problem related to heavy drinking. As the report puts it: “Disabling intellectual impairment may be the earliest complication of chronic alcoholism, and may arise early in the alcoholic career. ” (You’ve heard the claims about eating a diet high in fiber. Dr. Johnson separates fact from fiction in his latest book. For a postpaid copy, send $1.75 to “Food Fiber,” care of this newspaper, P. 0. Box 259, Norwood, N. J. 07648. Make checks payable to Newspaperbooks.) (01979 by The Chicago Tribune

prevent West from winning a trump trick with his presumed holding of 104-7-2. Actually it would be normal for declarer to finesse the nine on this basis and go down one. But if he sizes up the situation correctly, South goes up with the jack, spearing the ten, and so makes the contract. The point is that if East plays the ten on the four, South will surely finesse the queen and make four hearts. East has no chance whatever if he woodenly plays the ten. But if he plays the king, he presents declarer with a problem that is not easy to solve. By falsecarding and pretending he was dealt the lone king, East creates a situation that would simply not arise if he played the ten. To have any chance whatever to survive, he must make the mandatory falsecard of the king.

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