Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 41, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1987 — Page 4

THE BANNERQRAPHIC October 24,1987

People in the news Careers and pangs of guilt NEW YORK (AP) Actress Mario Thomas says she feels guilty about conflicts between career and family, but husband Phil Donahue never suffers such pangs. “He never felt guilty about going to work and leaving his children behind because he was raised to believe that that’s what a man does,” Miss Thomas said in an interview published in the Nov. 10 issue of Family Circle. “But I do feel guilty when I leave Phil every night to perform in a play, and when I know he’s sitting at home feeling lonely.” Miss Thomas was 43 when she married Donahue, a widower, and had previously been opposed to marriage. “I saw a great many marriages none of which I liked,” she said, citing her own mother’s regret at having given up her career to marry Danny Thomas and raise three children. But marriage to Donahue has been good: “It was much smoother blending two lives into one than I had ever expected.” But being stepmother to Donahue’s four sons his daughter no longer lived at home had its difficult moments. “For a while I thought I would go batty. I never saw so many jockstraps, wet towels and empty pizza boxes in my life,” she said. • LOS ANGELES (AP) Supermodel Christie Brinkley says she found something unexpected when she accompanied husband Billy Joel on his summer pop-concert tour of the Soviet Union. She found love. “The people are very open and warm and passionate people, and they just love Americans,” she said. “And they couldn’t do enough to show us how much they loved us.” • LOS ANGELES (AP) An all-star lineup of musicians, singers, comedians and other celebrities paid tribute to ailing jazz great Woody Herman while raising money for his medical bills. Headlining the event Friday at the Wadsworth Theater were Tony Bennett, Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra, Dudley Moore, Rosemary Clooney and the Woody Herman Alumni Band. Others lending their names to the affair included Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Henry Mancini, Steve Allen, Julie Andrews, John Byner, Mayor Tom Bradley, Blake Edwards, Johnny Carson, Robert Wagner and the musician’s daughter, Ingrid Herman Reese. Herman, 74, remained hospitalized in critical condition with congestive heart failure, emphysema and pneumonia.

Dear Abby

Wet your whistle on these remedies

DEAR ABBY: A few years ago you had some articles in your column about “dry mouth” and recommended a product that brought instant relief. At the time it didn’t concern me, so I didn’t save the items. But I’ve recently had radiation treatments and now I have a dry-mouth problem. Will you please repeat those letters? There must be others who would appreciate it, too. MR. L. IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA. DEAR MR. L.: Curiously, I’ve received many letters in the last few weeks from readers asking me to repeat the earlier letters on dry mouth. Here they are: DEAR ABBY: A while back you recommended a “saliva substitute” for people who suffer from dry mouth. Having suffered from that condition for two years, I went immediately to the pharmacy and asked for a saliva substitute. The pharmacist said she had never heard of such a product and told me to ask my dentist what the brand name was. I called my dentist and he had never heard of a saliva substitute either. Abby, can you tell me the name of this product and where it can be purchased? NEEDS IT IN ILLINOIS DEAR NEEDS: I had no idea that the problem of “dry mouth” was so widespread until I mentioned it in my column and

THE FAMILY By Bil Keane

“Grandma, are your teeth true or false?”

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Paying tribute

NEW YORK (AP) Bruce Springsteen paid musical tribute to producer John Hammond, who gave him his first recording contract, during a memorial service. “I’ll do a song by another young fellow John gave a break to,” Springsteen said Friday, performing Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young.” He accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. Hammond, who died July 10 at age 77, also introduced to the public Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holliday, Bessie Smith and Aretha Franklin. Stevie Ray Vaughan, another Hammond discovery, played jazz blues on acoustic guitar during the service at St. Peter’s Church, while folk singer Pete Seeger led a singing of “We Shall Overcome.” SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Elliott Gould says the characters he has played on screen have helped him understand himself and conquer his fears. The 49-year-old actor spoke at a news conference Friday during a meeting of the 7,000-member Phobia Society of America and a national conference on anxiety disorders. His latest film, “Inside Out,” deals with agoraphobia, whose victims are sometimes panicked by the mere thought of leaving their homes. Gould said he had developed anxiety as a child “because I didn’t know how to deal with the reality of lack of harmony in this world, the lack of respect.” “Everybody’s got the same problem,” Gould said, “learning to live with life, with oneself ... learning to accept the conditions that came with the package.” # DENVER (AP) Only 12 tickets have been sold for Jim and Tammy Bakker’s “Farewell For Now” tour here, but promoters have no plans to cancel the couple’s appearance, a newspaper reported Friday. The 18-city tour, set to begin Nov. 17 in Nashville, Tenn., is due at McNichols Sports Sport Arena on Dec. 3. Tickets went on sale Monday in most of the cities on the tour. The Denver promoter, Fey Concerts, has refused comment on sales of the tickets, which cost as much as S2O. But The Denver Post reported that only 12 tickets had been sold by Thursday afternoon. “There is no talk of cancellation,” Ron Cohen, a spokesman at ATI Equities in New York City, said Thursday. “I think things will pick up.”

t) Abigail Van Buren

was promptly deluged with letters from readers seeking relief from that condition. There are at least four brands of saliva substitutes on the market today. Ask your pharmacist to check the “Annual Pharmacists’ Reference Red Book,” “Facts and Comparisons” or “Physicians’ Desk Reference for Non-Prescription Drugs” under “Saliva Substitutes.” Readers, for your information, “xerostomia” (dry mouth) can be caused by disease, medication, radiation therapy or the normal aging process. This condition can cause acute discomfort, tooth decay, inability to eat, swallow or talk, as well as difficulty in wearing dentures. If your pharmacist has never heard of it and doesn’t know where to get saliva substitutes,

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find another pharmacist. * * * DEAR ABBY: I am writing to thank you for an article that you ran recently that has given me more relief and comfort than I can describe. I am 83, male and reasonably healthy, but in recent years I’ve been terribly troubled with a dry mouth especially at night. I complained to my doctor. He just shrugged his shoulders. Then I read your column in the San Francisco Chronicle, and my prayers were answered! In response to a letter asking why a person would use a mouth spray in public, you quoted a dentist who said that as a result of disease, medication, radiation therapy or simply aging, a number of people suffer from “xerostomia” (dry mouth). I immediately phoned my druggist, and he had never heard of a “saliva substitute,” so I told him to call his supplier and order it. He did, and the next day I picked it up and used it. Abby,’ I will be eternally grateful to you and that dentist. No more dry mouth! God bless you. GRATEFUL IN PARADISE, CALIF. DEAR GRATEFUL: I’ll print your letter for the benefit of others who suffer from dry mouth and are not aware of saliva substitutes.

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