Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 143, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 February 1984 — Page 7

People in the news Fashion model has replaced Koo LONDON (AP) Fashion model Katie Rabett, reportedly the new woman in Prince Andrew’s life, posed with a smile for photographers outside her front door. But then the door was shut, and the press was told to go away. The Daily Express scooped other royal-hungry competitors Tuesday with news that Prince Andrew, second of Queen Elizabeth ll’s three sons, went to a party at the Rabetts' suburban home Sunday. Miss Rabett, 23, threw a 24th-birthday party for the prince, the tabloid said. Andrew reportedly has cooled his friendship with American-born actress Koo Stark, 27, who once appeared in blue movies and is now making a career as a photographer. Miss Rabett’s mother, Jane, repeatedly answered the doorbell for reporters and photographers Tuesday, opening the door only a couple of inches. Alec Lorn of Britain’s Press Association, the domestic news agency, said he was told: “Please tell people to go home.” Miss Rabett’s father, Robert, returned home from work in the late afternoon and hurried inside so quickly that he didn’t even stop to pick up two bottles of milk left by a deliveryman on the front porch. The young model has done some acting, starring in a romantic film comedy called “In Real Life,” made in London and due for showing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and in Britain in June. She plays a girl apparently destined to lose in love but she gets her man after a lot of heartache. • SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) A man says he has a promise from Frank Sinatra to return to this “coal-cracking” town, and he’s hoping the singer will keep his word after it was given. During a show at the Masonic Temple on Jan. 17,1941, Sinatra promised to come back to Scranton if he made it big, according to Pete Horger, an early Sinatra admirer who talked with the singer that night. Horger recalls: “I told him he was going to be a big star and he said, ‘Pete, you really think I’m good?’ “I said, ‘You’ll be so big that you’ll never want to come back to a coal-cracking town like this.’” According to Horger, Sinatra, now 68, said, “If I make it as big as you think I will, I’ll come back here and sing for you personally.” Horger and the Northeast Pennsylvania Multiple Sclerosis Society want him to appear at a fund-raising dance April 6. Members of the society traveled to New York on Friday to present the idea to Sinatra’s publicist, Len Rosen, who promised to forward their letter to Sinatra by courier, Horger said. Rosen advised the members that Sinatra may have to disappoint them. But according to Horger he added: “You never know.” TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) The Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions at Arizona State University will be filled in 1987 by none other than the U.S. senator in whose name it was established. “He has been a central figure in numerous historical events, and his insights will be valued by our students, our faculty and our community,” university President J. Russell Nelson said Thursday in announcing the appointment. Goldwater, a 75-year-old Arizona Republican and author of “Conscience of a Conservative,” has said he will not seek re-election in 1986.

Freedom Medal winners disclosed

WASHINGTON (AP) - Whittaker Chambers, the late exCommunist whose testimony made him a symbol of the McCarthy era and helped convict Alger Hiss, is among 13 men and one women who will be awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. President Reagan will present the awards at a White House luncheon March 26. Chambers, who died in 1961 at the age of 60, was the celebrated witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee who testified that Hiss, a State Department aide, and others in government passed him official secrets while he worked as a Soviet spy during the 19305. Hiss denied the charges, was twice tried for perjury and was convicted after his second trial in 1950 at the climax of a legal battle still being fought by some of its partisans. Others named to receive the award, which is presented at the president’s discretion in recognition of meritorious service, are: —Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee, the Senate Republican leader. —Actor James Cagney. —Economist Leo Cheme, chairman of the board of the International Rescue Committe and longtime head of Freedom House.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Actor Buddy Ebsen, whose credits include his television work as “Barnaby Jones,” has co-authored a musical comedy with an anti-war theme and he’s looking for talent to perform in it. Ebsen, 75, returned Tuesday to the University of Florida, which he attended in the 19205, to hold auditions for a Gainesville production of “Cabaret Dada.” “I’ve seen a lot of talented people,” the actor said after dozens of hopefuls had put on their song-and-dance performances. The two-act play, which had a four-week run in Hollywood earlier this year, takes place in a Zurich bar, where deserters from France and England come up with a plan for peace amid song and dance before the explosion of a nuclear bomb hidden by a mad scientist. “The play itself is not frontloaded with message,” says Ebsen. “It’s an entertaining play with music and laughs.” • PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) Olympic skier Phil Mahre, reunited with his wife and baby daughter, told reporters he would have gladly traded his gold medal for a chance to see his new son bom. Holly Mahre, 22, gave birth to 8-pound, 13-ounce Alexander Ryan Mahre in suburban Scottsdale early Sunday morning at about the same time her 26-year-old husband was winning the men’s slalom at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. “I got the news about a half-hour before the awards ceremony. It moved me to tears. You just can’t comprehend that emotional moment. That was the highlight of the day,” Mahre said Tuesday night. “I wish I would have been here and not over there. It would have been a lot nicer. The baby was the big thing. The baby is more important than the gold medal.” The Mahres, who have been married three years, live in Yakima, Wash., but they will be staying with Holly’s parents in Scottsdale “for about a week to 10 days.” • “Death of a Salesman,” starring Dustin Hoffman, has been booked into the Broadhurst Theater. Opening night is March 29. “The Tap Dance Kid,” now at the Broadhurst, will move to another house ... “The Human Comedy,” Galt MacDermott’s new musical, will end its successful run at the Public Theater on March 5 and begin performances on Broadway at the Royale Theater on March 20 ... ‘A Sense of Humor,” Ernest Thompson’s new play, starring Jack Lemmon and Estelle Parsons, is closing in San Francisco and will not come to New York, as planned.

—Heart surgeon Denton Cooley. —Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford. —Dr. Hector Garcia, a physician from Corpus Christi, Texas, and founder of the American G.I. Forum, a Mexican-American veterans organization dedicated to achieving equal rights for all Mexican-Americans. He has been a delegate to the United Nations and a member of the Civil Rights Commission. —Retired Army Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, a former NATO commander recalled from retirement to head the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. —American ballet promoter Lincoln Kirstein, who founded and still heads the School for American Ballet in New York and is director-general of the American Ballet. —Author Louis L'Amour. —The Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, author of “The Power of Positive Thinking,” who was cited for his contribution to theology. —The late Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first black baseball player in the major leagues. —The late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. —Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of the late President John F. Kennedy, who was cited for her contribution to the field of mental retardation.

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