Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 74, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 December 1981 — Page 7

People in the news

Celebrities' shoes to foot library bill PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - N. Lee Eaton touched the soles of a score of famous men and women while trying to raise money for the Pawtucket Free Library. After receiving letters from Mrs. Eaton, a host of entertainers including Bob Hope, Brooke Shields and John Travolta kicked in one pair of shoes each for a fundraising auction to be held in January. “I thought people would want to buy them and hang them on the wall of their den,” said Mrs. Eaton, coordinator of community affairs for the library. “I’ve had more people come in off the street and offer me $lO or sls so they could wear them to a party and say. Hey, I’ve got Bob Hope's shoes on.’” She has mailed 200 letters since July and has received 41 pairs of shoes including Hope’s wingtips, Sally Struthers’ silver platforms and Charleton Heston’s size-12 sneakers, which came bearing the actor’s autograph. Marty Ingels attached a picture of his wife, singeractress Shirley Jones, to a pair of her gold sandals, Mrs. Eaton said. "When I got to the point I wanted to ask stars for something, I was trying to think of something every star would have, but they wouldn't have to give us something of any great value,” she said. "I thought, ‘lf they are like me they have lots of shoes they don’t like or don’t fit.’” One exception was actor Mickey Rooney, whose secretary wrote to say his feet are so small he has to have expensive custom-made shoes which he wears until they fall apart. She said she was surprised by the soft, brown loafers sent by Travolta. "They tell me that John Travolta is more conservative than I pictured him,” she said. One of her favorites are the pull-on ankle boots from "Lou Grant" star Ed Asner. "Ed Asner’s, I swear, have something fuzzy like mildew on the toe," she said. “Everybody who comes through says they wouldn’t think I could bear to part with them, but I tell them that I have to, becaase that’s part of the contract when I asked for them,” Mrs. Eaton said. • PARIS, Tenn. (AP) Hank Williams Jr. says he picked rural Henry County as the spot for his new nightclub because the place has "soul,” but some people in the area don’t want their souls tainted by all that drinking and carrying on. “I don’t think another bar is a needed thing in our county,” said the Rev. Keith Grace. “We don’t want Paris to be known as the honky-tonk capital of the world.” Those very words “Honky Tonk Capital of the World” were emblazoned on a shirt worn by a bartender as he greeted patrons Tuesday on the opening night of Hank’s Place, partly owned by the country music singer. Williams, son of the late country music star, was among the 200 people at the informal opening. A grand opening is planned Dec. 11. • In a poll of the nation’s leading diplomatic historians, Henry A. Kissinger, Dean Acheson and George C. Marshall were adjudged among the 10 best secretaries of state and John Foster Dulles was one of the five worst. The poll was conducted by David L. Porter of William Penn College, who sent questionnaires to 50 leading diplomatic historians. More than half responded. The historians were asked to name the 10 best and the five worst of the 56 secretaries of state. The results of the poll appear in the December issue of American Heritage magazine. The 10 best secretaries, in order of preference, were John Quincy Adams (1817-25), William H. Seward (1861-69), Hamilton Fish (1861-69), Charles Evans Hughes (1921-25), George C Marshall (1947-49), Dean Acheson (1949-53), Henry A. Kissinger (1974-77), Daniel Webster (1841-43, 185052), Thomas Jefferson (1790-93) and John Hay (1898-1905). The historians turned thumbs down on John Sherman (1897-98), Robert Smith (1809-11), Elihu Washburn (served just 5 days in 1869 under President Grant), John Foster Dulles (1953-59) and William Jennings Bryan (1913-15).

Cast insured 'Brainstorm' won't be total loss, despite tragedy

c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service HOLLYWOOD When Natalie Wood drowned Sunday, she was two weeks away from finishing a sl2 million movie. With the completion in jeopardy, it might have seemed that the sl2 million would go down the drain. But Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, producer of the science fantasy “Brainstorm,” is at risk for only a few thousand dollars. “No company goes forward without cast insurance,” Frank E. Rosenfelt, MGM’s chairman, said. “When we hired George Burns for ‘The Sunshine Boys,’ the first question we asked was whether he was insurable.” Burns was then nearly 80 years old “We would not have hired him,” Rosenfelt said, “if we couldn’t have gotten insurance for him. “Cast insurance covers all of your expenditures from four to six weeks prior to the start of principal photography, except the script, since a script is presumably reusable.” If MGM decides to scrap “Brainstorm,” it will “probably be the biggest movie insurance claim ever,” according to John McCormick of Bayley, Martin & Fay, MGM’s insurance broker. Bayley, Martin & Fay placed the insurance on “Brainstorm” with a consortium of London companies including Lloyds and Pacific Indemnity. The future of “Brainstorm,” which is directed by Douglas Trumbull and co-stars Cliff Robertson and Christopher Walken, will be decided in 10 days, but the situation looks ominous. “Natalie had five scenes left to shoot,” David Chasman, senior vice president of worldwide production at M-G-M, said. “Two of those scenes represented coverage on master scenes shot in North Carolina, and we could live without them. A third scene was transitional, and we could probably live without it. But two scenes were crucial. They set up the entire third act of the movie. “They took place in a hotel room between Natalie and Chris, who were devising a plan to outwit the bad guys. There is no question of the Jean Harlow solution playing

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ROBERTA PETERS: Takes Manhattan

On the Metropolitan Opera stage, she has appeared as queens, pageboys, mad women, maids and mechanical dolls. She has appeared in movies, on radio and on television, and in many advertisements. And in the last 31 years, Roberta Peters has appeared in concert in dozens of cities, about 50 times a year. "But there’s one thing I haven’t done, and I’m finally getting around to doing it Saturday,” Miss Peters said Wednesday. “I am finally appearing in solo concert in Manhattan! I’ve done it in Brooklyn and in Queens and in the suburbs, but at last I’ll sing in recital where I work the most in Lincoln Center, at Alice Tully Hall, just across the street from the Met.” She says there’ll be a bit of opera on her program, but it will consist mostly of songs by Liszt, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Joaquin Rodrigo. “I’m not usually associated with those composers, but for what I consider my first real hometown concert, I wanted something special,” Miss Peters said. NEW YORK (AP) Former “Annie” star Shelley Bruce is back at her home in New Jersey after being released from Memorial Soan-Kettering Cancer Center where she underwent treatment for leukemia, a hospital spokesman says. The 16-year-old actress is suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia and had been hospitalized for treatment. She was released Monday, but will continue receiving outpatient treatment at the hospital once a month, the spokesman said Wednesday. Her physicians say there is a 65 to 75 percent chance of a long-term cure. • CHAPMAN, Kan. (AP) What was it like to be in the space shuttle, Col. Joe Engle’s hometown audience wanted to know, flying high above the Earth? The astronaut reached back to the teen-age vocabulary of tearing around the parking lot in souped-up cars. It was like “peeling rubber,” he said. More than 1,000 people packed into the gymnasium of Chapman High School on Wednesday to honor the town’s most celebrated native. The commander of the space shuttle Columbia during its second voyage into space was presented a key to the tiny east-central Kansas community where he grew up, and given lifetime memberships to various civic organizations. • LOS ANGELES (AP)- Entertainment entrepreneurs Norman Lear and A. Jerrold Perenchio say they have signed an agreement for the purchase of Avco Embassy Pictures Corp. from Avco Corp. The price was not disclosed, but the Los Angeles Times said it learned it would be about $25 million cash. Avco Embassy is considered a “second-tier” or “minimajor” film producer when compared to the industry’s largest studios. It has suffered recently from lack of hit movies, but one current release, “Time Bandits,” has met with critical and box-office success.

the unfinished scenes with a double in a big hat. Somebody will have to come up with a spectacular solution if we are to continue the movie.” Last spring, Columbia collected approximately $3 million when Martin Ritt, the director, collapsed from exhaustion a week into the production of “No Small Affair,” starring Sally Field, and the movie was canceled. When Richard Dreyfuss was ill with influenza for a few days during the shooting of “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” MGM got a check for several thousand dollars. Among the ill-fated movies salvaged by insurance companies were “Kiss Me, Stupid,” “Solomon and Sheba” and “Raintree County.” When Peter Sellers had a heart attack four weeks into the production of “Kiss Me, Stupid” in 1964, the insurance company paid, and the movie was recast with Ray Walston. Tyrone Power died during the filming of “Solomon and Sheba” in 1958, and the insurance money enabled United Artists to start over with Yul Brynner. When Montgomery Clift was nearly killed in an automobile accident during the filming of “Raintree County,” insurance paid for the time the movie was shut down until he recovered. Normally, cast insurance premiums run from .5 percent to 1.5 percent of a movie’s budget. The average cost of cast insurance for the average $lO million movie would be SIOO,OOO. The costs vary according to how long the picture will be in production, how many actors it has and where it will be shot. “A movie with a lot of airplanes, boats and sharks might be charged 2.5 percent,” McCormick said. Actors younger than 10 or 12 or older than 65 also cost extra, he added. Producers generally have a deductible of SIO,OOO to $250,000. They also routinely buy errors and omissions insurance to protect them if they violate someone’s copyright or right of privacy. The major studios, including MGM, buy a blanket errors and omissions policy that covers all their movies.

House Call

Treating arthritis with radiation

By G. Timothy Johnson, M.D. Question: I am very interested in recent reports about treating severe arthritis with radiation. My wife has suffered from this disease for many years and I would like to know more about the treatment and where it is available. Answer: I am sure you are one of many people who paid close attention to the news of “total body irradiation” in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Before answering your question, I need to establish some background. The word arthritis simply means “joint inflamation." Obviously, there are many possible causes of joint discomfort - including some emergency problems (usually signaled by the sudden onset of a red, hot, swollen joint) as well as many chronic causes. In the United States, the most common cause of chronic joint pain is degenerative joint disease, of DJD for short. This form of arthritis (also known as

B. J. Becker: Playing against queen of spades

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declarer must do everything right or he will wind up failing in his mission. For example, take the present case where it would be easy to go wrong. Normally, you wouldn’t see the East-West cards and would not know that absolute perfection in the play was required to be successful. But even if you had the advantage of seeing all four hands, you’d still have to mind your p’s and q’s carefully to avoid coming home lame. The seven notrump contract (certainly not recommended) is imaginary'. But if that’s where declarer lands, he should make the contract with some lucky breaks here and there.

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phatic tissues. Irradiating those tissues may destroy their abnormal function. (This is much the same as using radiation to treat certain cancers of the lymphatic system.) The news reports that caught your interest were based on studies that appeared in the Oct. 22, 1981, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers used radiation to treat a small number of patients with very severe rheumatoid arthritis. (These patients could not be treated easily with standard therapies.) While the preliminary results are “cautiously encouraging” (those words are mine), they are still clearly very experimental. We need to learn much more about this treatment in terms of its immediate and long-term effectiveness, as well as its side effects, before it can be made available to the general public. In the meantime, I think it is important to stress that there are other treatments effective

He wins the spade lead with the king and plays the seven of hearts (not the deuce) to dummy’s queen. He next leads the jack of clubs and, when East follows low, plays his ten (not the eight). Declarer continues with dummy’s nine of clubs, on which he plays the eight. This allows him to stay in dummy and lead another club, this time finessing the queen successfully. South is now back in his hand and the first part of his mission is accomplished. (Alternatively, South could have first led the club nine, playing the eight, and then the jack, playing the ten.) South next leads the eight of hearts (not the deuce) to dummy’s ace, and finesses the

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for individuals with severe arthritis. In some patients, these forms of therapy - including gold injections, anti-malarial drugs and penicillamine -- can actually arrest or slow down rheumatoid arthritis. Diabetes affects between foijr and 10 million people in th|s country - and the number isl creases an alarming 6 perceflt every year. In fact, diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder in humans. Yet it is one of the few medical defects in which the patients can have a major impact on the course of the disease. In his new HEALTHBEAT Special Report. Dr. Johnson tells you what diabetes is and what you can dlo to control it. For a copy of his informative and encouraging report, send $1 and a long, stamped (20 cents), selfaddressed envelope to DIABETES REPORT, Box 255), Norwood, N.J. 07648. Make ;heck payable to Newspaperoooks.

jack of diamonds. He then cashes the king of hearts and continues with the deuce to dummy’s four of hearts. Now he finesses the queen Of diamonds and thus wins all the tricks. Analyzing South’s play,we find that he took five finesses, even though dummy had only two obvious entries. By employing his spot cards carefully, and at no expense, declarer gets maximum mileage, entrywise, from dummy. The importance of the entry problems must be recognized at the start. One careless play and the contract goes down the drain. The best chef in the world can’t unfry a fried egg!

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