Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 99, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 December 1980 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, December 26,1980

People in the news

Rosalyn again most admired As they have done each year for the last three decades the people at the Gallup Poll went out in December to find out which women Americans admired most Along with a word of caution that the poll “tends to favor those who are currently or have recently been in the news,” the names of the top-10 women were released this week Tied for first place were Rosalynn Carter, the first lady, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. They were followed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain; Betty Ford, the former first lady; Gov Klla T Grasso of Connecticut; Barbara Jordan, the former Texas representative; Barbara Walters, the television personality; Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India; Nancy Reagan, the first lady to lx*; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. the former first lady, and Jane Fonda, the actress As to the accuracy of the list. George Gallup, the director of tht' poll, said that "one can say with 9. r > per cent accuracy that the error attributable to sampling and other effects could be three percentage points in either direction." A total of 1.549 adults were polled. There were some changes from last year’s list. The 10 ranked this way a year ago: Hosalvnn Carter; Betty Ford; Mother Teresa; Margaret Thatcher; Barbara Walters; Gillian Carter, the president's mother; Patricia Nixon, the former first lady; Anita Bryant, the singer; Cored a King, the civil rights activist, and Jacqueline Onassis • HOLLYWOOD i API--Actor Henry Fonda isn’t ready to scoot down any chimneys, but the actor says he feels fine after a 16-day hospital stay for tests of a new medication “It was about time, wouldn't you say?" said Fonda, who walked out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wednesday. "I FKKI. FINK.” said the 75-year-old movie star, but added; “I’m not going down the chimney vet.” Fonda, who appeared in such film classics as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Mister Roberts,” said he planned to begin rehearsals of a new play in two weeks He was hospitalized Dec. 8 for tests of a new medication used in conjunction with the heart pacemaker implanted in his chest six years ago • HOUSTON (AP)--Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was reported in good condition after having a pacemaker implanted in his chest. Louis. 66. was admitted to Methodist Hospital on Dec. 15 for what was described as another checkup similar to those he has had since undergoing open heart surgery in 1977. • NORFOLK. Va (AP'--Jacques Cousteau, whose weatherbeaten ship Calypso reached its new home port in time for Christmas, says his crew found no bodies when it explored the sunken freighter Edmund Fitzgerald. The undersea adventurer told W'ednesdav of his first trek to cold Great Lakes waters and of his explorations off the Atlantic coast of Canada. DURING THE TRIP, the Calypso crew put the first diver on the Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in Lake Superior several years ago with about 30 men aboard And the divers took their mini-submarine down to two American ships that sank in Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Cousteau didn't seem unhappy to be land-bound for a while “This isn’t the aircraft carrier Eisenhower." a jovial Cousteau told reporters crowded around the Calypso’s table “But I'm glad to be home." • It's a long way from the Beach Boys, whose careers first brought Richard Duryea and Jeff Franklin together a decade ago. Franklin as their booking agent and Duryea as a tour manager. Now the two are teaming up to bring the Mongolian Horsemen troupe to the United States on its first trip out of China, followed by a reciprocal tour there of a combined American rodeo and country-music concert.

Max not typecast in Ming role

c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK films with Ingmar Bergman. Max Von Svdow acknowledged, that he got the chance to gaze lasciviously at the bound and helpless, voluptuous and. naturally, scantily clad heroine and order his lackeys. “Prepare her for my pleasure “ Von Svdow also conceded over lunch the other day that his role as Ming the Merciless in the movie “Flash Gordon probably lacked the artistic resonance of his appearances in such classic Bergman films as “The Seventh Seal. "Wild Strawberries.” “The Virgin Spring” or. for that matter, such non-Bergman films as “The Emigrants” and The Exorcist.” but at least it was fun to make Not least of all. he said, was the transformation of a 6foot 4-inch Swede with a ruddy complexion, reddish-blond hair and clipped mustache and the sort of shoulders and hands that look as though they should be swinging an ax in the North Woods into the devious and malignant Mongol of the comics ■l'm always desperately trying to find parts that are different. from those I’ve already done,” Von Sydow explained “I began in repertory on the stage, playing all ages and types, and 1 don’t want to start being typecast now Sometimes it’s very boring being too serious.” Flash Gordon was in any case an old friend, he continued I used to read it when I was a youngster, growing up in Lund In Swedish it’s called 'Blixt-Oordon ’ I used to be mad about comic books ‘Terry and the Pirates’ is ‘.lim Oeh Piraterna' in Swedish Don’t ask me why they changed Terry to .Jim Von Sydow who'is r >l years old, met Bergman nearly no •/ears ago in Malmo Their association was to become one of the most successful in film history It was extraordinary working with him,” he said When he trusts his actors he will not even Irxik at what’s being done lie will just listen 'lf it sounds all right,' he used b, say it will l<iok all right With the same impulse that for a thousand years arid more has sent Scandinavians roving iri search of warmth

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CYBILL SHEPHERD: Surprise!

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)-II probably wouldn’t lx* healthy for anyone who dwsn’t believe in Santa Claus to mention it around Purdue linebacker Tom Kingsbury After the Christmas present lx* got this week a hug and kiss from actress Cyhill Shepherd the 5-foot to, 209 pound senior is the No. 1 fan of the red-clad gent IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER Purdue’s Liberty Bowl arrival that Kingsbury broached the question of meeting Miss Shepherd, who lives in Memphis. "Do you think anybody can arrange for me to shake her hand?” he asked a reporter On Tuesday, the Purdue and Missouri football teams were guests of Mayor Wyeth Chandler at his annual brunch for Liberty Bowl opponents, and Miss Shepherd was the featured performer. The actress-singer concluded her act by inviting a startled Kingsbury onto the stage and planting a kiss and a hug on him THE DAZED BOILERMAKER returned to his seat with a standing ovation from his teammates. "I still can’t believe it happened,” Kingsbury said. "She's definitely the best-looking woman I ever saw. What a shock!” # NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) Nancy Reagan was very mature as a student at exclusive Smith College, even then displaying a devotion to the movies and acting, former roommates and friends recall But Mrs. Reagan, the next first lady, was also remembered as being just one of the girls. “She was just like the rest of us,” said Jean Wescott Marshall of Wilmette. 111,, Mrs Reagan’s best friend through grade school, high school and college. “1 would say we were strictly average.” "She was very mature for her age,” said former roommate Patricia James Ackerly of Richmond, Va., who recalled being impressed during a college visit to her roommate’s “huge apartment” in Chicago. Mrs. Reagan was Nancy Davis then, and after her graduation took up a career in Hollywood “Nancy was a big movie fan and devoted to acting,” Ms. Ackerly said. "I wasn’t surprised at all to see her in Hollywood. She would have made a success of anything she tried. When she put her mind to something, that is what she did." • LOS ANGELES (AP) Norman Cousins, longtime editor of the Saturday Review, was hospitalized for tests after experiencing a shortness of breath, his wife says. Cousins, 65. entered UCLA Medical Center on Monday, said Eleanor Cousins. "He had intestinal flu last week. Then he developed shortness of breath,” she said Thursday. Cousins was editor of the Saturday Review from 1940-71 and from 1973-77. Among books Cousins has written are "Talks with Nehru.” “The Good Inheritance” and “Modern Man is Obsolete.”

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