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The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
House Removes Ceiling on Teachers Retirement Fund

JUNEAU lR The House gave it's OK to legislation removing the ceiling upon which teachers may contribute to the teachers retire ment fund.
 Under the present law, teachers may make such contributions only on s7,000 of salary.
 The bill also would permit the payment of interest on monies a teacher has in the retirement fund after continuous membership for only three years, instead of the present 10.
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
WAY TO STAY YOUNG l.

LONDON M - Big Ben Olu- vole, paramount chieftan of Ni- geria's Shagamu Ijeb Reno tribe, said today the way to stay young is to have children.
 At the age of TT, he looks 45, And says he has 75 children. He was interviewed while here on a visit.
 Having all those children" he said, lis what keeps me young Mind you. expect to have some more"
 He declined to say how many wives he has, or has had.
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
! HOUSE OKErIS SABBhTrCAL T.EHvvS T0p TEACHERS

LEAVES ron TEACHERS
 JUNEAU Ns Teachers would be permitted to take sabbatical leaves for educational purposes after seven years of teaching in Alaska under terms of bill which passed the House 30-2 Friday.
 Teachers would receive half pay during the leaves, which would be subject to the approval of school boards for teachers in independent school districts, or the Commis- sioner of Education for teachers in state-operated schools.
 Following such leaves, the teach CTS would be required to return to Alaska for at least an additional years teaching.
 The measure was introduced by Reps. Vim. Erwin and James Par sons.
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19

pond not much bigger than backyard swimming pool.
 The pond is almost completed. Bulldozers have scooped out the basin and cables have been laid for cameras and microphones which will record the porpoises' speed and speech.
 The only thing lacking now is the porpoises They haven't been caught yet.
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
Navy Plans
 School Course For Six Porpoises

POINT MUGU, Calf. R - Porpoises have turned out to be so bright the Navy's going to send six of them to school.
 They'll start in an underwater kindergarten a 50-foot-diaineter pool now being built beside a lagoon at this headquarters of the Pacific missile range, where the sea- going mammals will be taught to count, fetch, tow objects under water and, hopefully. even talk.
 While they're learning, Navy scientists will be learning, too.
 The Navy wants to know how pornoises can swim so fast up to 40 miles an hour - how they communicate with each other, and how their rey-spotting sonar works.
 Answers to these questions could lead to torpedoes and sub- marines now envisioned only in science fiction. And who knows what else scientists will learn, once they start talking with por- posises?
 Belief that porpoises can be taught to speak arose from expert ments with a young female named Netty, who died a few months ago. Netty learned to recognize the words "ball,'' ''hat," ring and stick" and to fetch these items on voice command.
 Porpoises apparently communi- cate with each other by means of peeps they make with the blow holes in the tops of their bulging heads. While Netty was alive, scientists began recording their sounds and duplicating them in an effort to converse with Netty in her own language. Despite her achievements, Netty was a disappointment to Navy scientists. She wasn't very fast - 16 knots was her best recorded
 speed - and there were rumor,
 she wasn't too bright as porpoise1 l go.
 I She may have been bored ane
 lonely. Netty was always kept by
 herself in a special tank at Ma,
 rineland in Los Angeles. The
 Navy didn't want her picking LII the horn-tooting, basketball-play,
 ing tricks of her show-busines! cousins.
 Netty's successors won't have a chance to get lonesome, witt six of the 200-pound six-footers ir
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
Cnrrecss Drinkinu Problem

Cofrecfs Drinking Problem
 PORTLAND, Ore. ta4 - George O'Sullivan Young, 82, Portland, told Circuit Court judge We'd nesday he has drinking problem --but only on weekends.
 The judge, Alfred Sulmonetti sentenced Young to year of weekends in the Multnomah County jail.
 Young appeared before Sul- monetti on appeal from a Muni- cipal Court sentence of a year in jail and a $l 1000 fine for drunk driving.
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19

COLONEL cIENNs "BRAKEs"- am heodinq back 10 Howoi reported H. Col John Glenn Mercury Control he felt the kick of the three reo-rockefs puc
 strapped inc heat shield nose of his space capsule oP PHoTo His sweet music so 1hiokol Chemical corpor0on employees who the solid poPelun rocket motors 10 incredibly exaeng Mercury system specifications PHOTO shows one Of these bueke,ze reiro 2ineh in diameter sneh long The sushuped een- ter in the solid propeunt the rocket engines perform Ignition provided by tiny rocket pyrogenes Ecc of inc three rockets fred for enough foto impulse brake capsules orbfu velocity by cboUf 500 feesee hus committing Fricndhip 10 recently 0lons bnilsiie pofh fo she point of lundins.
The Nome nugget., 1962-03-19
Tot Electrocuied by Toaster

DETROIT R The electric toaster was bright and shiny. Two-year-oid Jeffery Goudeseune climed up on kitchen chair in his suburban Nankin township to see the toaster at closer range.
 Jsffery saw his reflection. Leaning over metal border around a formica counter, he kissed his reflection.
 Jeffery fell dead. A coroner's verdict held it accidental cleo trocution.
 l Fine Job priutiuu At The Nuuue
Evening star., 1962-05-28
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What do you say?

Answer: Bid two clubs, the
Stayman convention. If part
ner can bid two hearts. you
will raise to game; otherwise
you will merely invite game by
bidding two no-trump.
Copyright, 1862, Gen. Features Corp }
Evening star., 1962-05-28
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Evening star., 1962-05-28
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

@: At dinner last night we
were the victims of another of
mothers experiments in fancy
cookery. Ever since she got a
subscription to Gourmet maga-
zine for Mothers Day, we have
had to face all sorts of oddities
at the dinner table. This time
it was artichokes.
Mother carefully explained
that we were to dip the leaves
into the melted butter, then
chew gently until we reached
the hard part of the leaf, at
which point we were to discard
the leaf. All went well, except
that Tommy was late for din
ner and missed the instructions.
Result: Halfway through his
first leaf he started choking
and we had to pry it out of
his throat. Dad said he wasn't
at all surprised, that you had
to expect a choke in artichoke,
for that's where the name of
the vegetable came from" Is
this true?
Perhaps I should explain
that I am one of seven children,
which is how one Of us sort of
gets overlooked once in a while.
M. L. O'Connell, Stamford,
Conn.
A: As one of a large family
tseven) and head of another
large family (six), I can well
understand how this could hap
pen. Perhaps it was to forestall
such incidents as Tommy'sI
choking that my mother never
served us artichokes. Or it may
simply have been that few din
ner tables in the depression
years featured such luxuries as
artichokes.
However that may be, there
is no connection between the
act of choking and the vegeta-
BILE. The first artichokes were
Arabian and called "al-khar-
shuh" which, said aloud, is
more like a sneeze than a choke.
The Italians made this word
into "articiocco" from which
comes our "artichoke."
Incidentally, just to forestall
the wiseacre letters I can see
already being written in the
minds Of some critical readers,
let me say that I know full well
that the artichoke is techfdcally
an herb, not a vegetable. But
Evening star., 1962-05-28

New bsoufyI New eoIorsI New under
eootins. new finish. Stunning new
postel shodss and our very own pot
tern moke our Awnings truly ovtsiond-
ing.
Evening star., 1962-05-28
Daily Question

Partner opens with one no.
trump (l6 to l8 points,, and
the next player passes. You
hold:
Evening star., 1962-05-28
WORD GAME
Find Is or more words in
CHILDLIKE
BY H0nno-Borbero

meaning simple, innocent
Average mark is % words;
time limit. Is minutes.
Rules of the game: l. Words must bt
OF four or more letters. .. Words which
acquire four letters BY the addition
of IS" such as bats" cats" are not
used. 3. Only one form Of a word is
used. 4. Proper names are not used
Answer TO SCRIBBLED
scribe. sire. side. sidle. sled, slide. slice
slier. cell. cider. crib. cried. relic. reis,
rice. ribbed. rides, rise, rile. iced. idler
biee, birle, bier bled bleb, bred, bride
bribe. bride. lice. liber. lied. lire.
debris. dice. disc, dire. dibble. dribble,
dries.
Evening star., 1962-05-28
SHEINWOLD
ON BRIDGE
Pluy Separates
Men From BOYS
By ALFRED SHEINWOLD

The worst feature of being
overruffed is the scornful
advice you get from your op-
ponent: Never send a boy to
do a mans job" To avoid this
fate, select a boys job for a
boy and use a man where
necessary.
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Evening star., 1962-05-28

Opening lead: Diamond queen.
Today's hand would get most
players in trouble. Declarer
would win the first diamond,
draw a round or two of trumps
and then go after the hearts
by caShing two top cards and
ruffing a third heart in dummy
If declarer ruffed the third
heart with dummy's ace of
trumpS. he would eventually
lose a heart and a diamond.
If he ruffed with one of dunn
my's low trumps, he would lose
an overruff and a diamond,
Important Discard
The correct play is to begin
the hearts without drawing any
trumps at all. Instead Of ruff
ing the third heart in dummy
South must discard the losing
diamond from dummy.
West can return a trump,
but this still leaves two trumps
in dummy-one boy-sized and
one man-sized. South can ruff
his remaining diamond with
dummy's low trump. return to
his hand with a club, and ruff
the fourth round Of hearts with
dummy's ace of trumps.
There is no danger of an
overruff in either case. East
has to follow suit on the second
round of diamonds and cannot
overruff the ace of trumps.
South can ruff a club to re-
gain the lead, after which he
draws trumps and cashes his
last heart to score game. slam
and rubber.
Remember this kind OF play
when you're trying to set up
a long suit by ruffing. 1t may
be safer and more productive
to discard than to ruff, especi-
ally II this transfers the ruff
from a dangerous to a safe
suit.
Evening star., 1962-05-28
Answer 70 sCRIRRLEn

it's cooked and served as a
vegetable - and that's good
enough for me.
Evening star., 1962-01-27

Bolshoi Opera; /, $40, $40,
7:30 and 9:45 pm.
Palace knights of the
Rolndtable";; l:50, 5:45 and
$40 pm. "Ivanhoe";; 1850
3:45, 7:40 and 11:35 pm.
Playhouse - LES Liaisons
Dangereuses"; IL, 2, 4, 6. 8
and 9:55 pm.
Plaza-"The Tailor's Maid";;
11:45 am, 2:25, $40, 7:50 and
10:40 pm. Savage Eye; 1855,
$40. $40 and 9:05 pm.
TOwn-"The Roman Spring
Of Mrs. Stone; IL, 2, 4, 6, 8,
10 and IL pm.
Trans Lux "The Inno-
cents; IL am, 1880, 2:40
4:30, $40, $40 and 9:55 pm
Uptown--"West Side Story;
2 and $50 pm.
Warner King of Kings;
2 and $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1962-01-27
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Times of Showing

Stage
Arena - "The Moon in the
Yellow River; 2:30 and 8:3(
pm.
National Theater - The Ole
Vic in Macbeth; 2 and 8 pm
Catholic University - 1.-THE
Clouds; $3.50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - THE Singer
Not the Song; lao, Ais. 6:5(
and $50 pm.
Apex Purple Noon; $50
7:35 and GAS pm.
Capitol - "Sail a Crooked
Ship; IL, 2, 1855, 5:55, 1850
9:45 and 11:45 pm.
DupOnt-"One, Two, Three"
1:2o. 1925, $50. 7:35, $40 anc
11:55 pm.
Keiths - Happy Thieves"
1870 am, 1870, $3.50, $50
1880, $3.50 and 1880 pm.
Macarthur - mo Love fol
Johnnie; 2, 3:55, 5:55; 7:5s
and 9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - "The Singer
Not the Song; 1880 am, 2
4:30, 7 and $50 pm.
OntariO-"Queen of Spades,
Evening star., 1962-01-27
HOLLYWOOD
Cary 'Lody's' Man.?
By SHEILAH GRAHAM

ical, Ben Franklin in Paris. u
Mark wrote the score, Sidney
Michaels the lyrics, and both
collaborated on the book. Mark
son of the late famed director
is happily married to Vanessa
Brown.
\ Il
Jack LemmOn's role in 1.-THE
Fig Tree" sounds hilarious. This
is a very special fig tree. You
eat a fig and you become more
amorous and when the CTS
hear of this they beat a path
to the tree. The picture, to be
made in Italy, has been okayed
by Church and State.
Donald O'Connor has some
good impressions Of celebrities
in his new night-club act: Ed
die Fisher, MeIina MercOuri-
she has a deep voice-Pat Boone
and President Kennedy. The
latter, because of his Harvard
New England accent, is fairly
easy to initiate.
Evening star., 1962-01-27

HOLLYWOOD (NANA). -
Cary Grant looms most likely
for my Fair Lady" This will
be a blow for Rex Harrison,
who created the role on Broad
way and who expected to be
tapped for the movie version
for which Warmers paid $5.5
million. Cary should be
very good as the professor. 1t
will be harder to cast Eliza
Doolittle.
Ingrid Bergman would rath-
er that Tony Quinn merely CO.
starred with her in 1.-The Visit, u
and did not direct as we'll. It's
almost impossible to work well
in front, as well as behind, the
camera.
Bob Hope had to give up golf
for a few days-because of a
touch of pleurisy. He still does
too much, and many of us here
wish he would take things some
what easier. Glenn FOrd's
best girl, Connie Stevens, is
sporting a new diamond brace
let. If Glenn gave it to her,
you can expect a marriage.
y y y
George Chakiris will learn in
London whether or not he has
been nominated for an Oscar.
He'll be attending the premiere
there of West Side Story" on
February 26. Chakiris will be
the only member of the cast
to meet the Queen. Zsa
Zsa GabOr's 14-year-old Fran
ceSca had the customers in
stitches at the Golden Door,
when. after two months of los
ing weight, she exclaimed, II
can't stand it a second longer
Are there no boys around here?"
Only during mems week!
Audrey Hepburn would play
Peter Pan, with Hayley Mills
as Wendy and Peter Sellers as
Captain Hook in the new movie
version of the Barrie classic
now in discussion stage in Eng
land. Mark Sandrich, jr.,
has been in New York discus
sing the production of his mus
Evening star., 1962-01-27

SAIL A CROOKED SHIP" q Co.
lumbia Pictures release Of Philip
Brecher. screenpiay BY Ruth Brooks
Flippen and Bruce Geller from the
novel by Nathaniel Benchley; music
by George Duning, at Loew's Capitol
Evening star., 1962-01-27
THE CAST

Ernie Kovacs Is the best
thing about Sail a Crooked
Ship" at Loew's Capitol. This
will come as no surprise to the
late COMICS admirers but it is
the only really cheerful thing
to be said for the farce based
upon a Nathaniel Benchley
novel.
Otherwise, in common with
most ventures into slapstick this
one suffers from two weak
nesses. One of these is too great
a strain upon it's basic material,
the other a conspicuous unbal-
ance between the talents of
Kovacs, Frank Gorshin and
Carolyn Jones and their fellow
nonsense makers.
Still another flaw in the frol-
icsome affair is that while it
comes up with some promising
sight gags. it clings to the best
Of them long after they have
ceased to be Serviceable.
Kovacs role in the slapstick
directed by Irving Brecher is
that Of a carefree burglar hired
in error as captain of a sur
plus ship that q nice Young
man thinks too good for junk
ing. The way to save such a
ship is to take it to sea, but
never with a crew like that
Kovacs brings aboard. The tai
ents Of this group are strictly
limited to bank robbery which,
of course. sets up a farce sit
uation styled for such perform
ers as Kovacs and Gorshin.
These two make quite a lot
OF certain sequences of "Sail
a Crooked Ship" the climactic
one a hurricane which would
have scuttled a less lucky ship.
Kovacs wrests a maximum of
merriment out Of this, and a
secondary semi-licit relation
ship with Miss Jones but the
farce tempo drops when
Brecher tries to pick up other
narrative threads.
Among these are a fruStrat-
ing romance involving Robert
Wagner and Dolores Hart and
some asides which attempt to
bring young frankie Avalon
into the action as a comic cabin
boy. The effect of these is to
leave the spectator hungering
for the camera to return to the
older hands at farce, especially
Capt. Kovacs.
Evening star., 1962-01-27
Peace Corps Aide
Scheduled TO Speak

Oliver Popenoe, director of
program development for the
Peace Corps and president of
the National Capital Clearing
House for Neighborhood De-
mocracy, will speak at 8 pm.
tomorrow.
Mr.. Popenoe will address the
Community Council on Social
Progress, meeting at Lomax
A.M.E. Zion Church, 27O7
Twenty-fourth road South, Ar
lington.
Evening star., 1962-01-27

Between its angry and am.
bilious younger men, England
finds the stuff of some cork.
ing motion pictures Of which
the newest specimen Is INT
Love for Johnnie" at the Mac.
Arthur theater.
This one concerns itself with
a youthful member of Parlia-
ment, played by Peter Finch
who decides to ascend the po-
litical escalator at whatever
cost to others. His chief assets
toward this end are a bogus
charm and a total lack ot
moral scruples. These leave his
wake strewn with a ruthlessly
cheated electorate, some hood
winked party leaders, and three
women who have Wed to be
his major victim.
Johnnie Byrne is the name
Of Finch's beguiling villain. He
plays his dirty game in an
atmosphere that nearly always
offers a casual harmless sur
face, the terrace restaurant OF
the House of Commons, the
sunlet Thames, pleasant park
hooks.
Threading a creamy way
through these, Johnnie de-
mands two things of life: a
starting place in the Labour
Party cabinet and an imme-
diately available sacrificial girl.
The former is his major goal,
the devoted women merely q
solace while he is waiting.
It is an absorbingly detailed
screenplay through which he
moves with a chilling con-
fidence that there is room at
the top and that he has the
conscienceless cunning to get
there. It keeps Johnnie and his
victims constantly on the move,
he lodging wretched constitu-
ents. outfoxing party Superiors,
seeking out a shareable boudoir.
In the middle of a multitude
of England's smoothest actors,
Finch gives a standout per-
formance as the engagingly
masked, scoundrelly Johnnie.
He knows the con mans every
trick Of reducing his moral su-
periors to ruins. Watching him
use them makes a fascinating
picture Of this one directed by
Ralph Thomas.
To make it the more so, there
is the work of half a dozen
other vivid performers, among
these Mary Peach and Billie
Whitelaw as Johnnie's more pa
thetic victims. The males who
leave quality marks on the film
include Donald Pleasence as a
competing snake in Johnnie's
political Eden; Paul Rogers as
a fellow Labourite who never
fails to call Johnnie what he
really is; and Dennis Price who
views political scoundrels with
the amused scorn they deserve.
An assured 10-best film for
1852 is mo Time for Johnnie" :"
Evening star., 1962-01-27
British Send q Gem:
Hollywood q Farce
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic of The Star

mo LOVE FOR JOHNNIE" a
Rank Organization release Of a
Betty Z. Box production, directed by
Ralph Thomas, screenplay by Nicho-
las Phipps and Mordecai Richler
from, the novel by Wilfred Fien-
purgh. music composed and con-
Quoted by Malcolm Arnold. At the
Macarthur Theater
Evening star., 1962-01-27
Films of More Than Routine Merit

BACHELOR IN PARADISE"-Boy Bob Hope Meets Girls
apenty on a rOmp through suburba.
"BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS"-Audrey Hepburn scintiates
in glossy and sophisticated romantic comedy
THE BRIDGE"-SOme German schoOIboys are impressed
into bloody service in savage comment wars idocy
"EXODUS"-Otto Preminger pOpulates Israel, i'm
preSsive for its size than for its dramatic DEPTH
GUNS OF FNAVARONE"-GregOry Peck Anthony Quinn and
others in an exciting World War ii adventure yarn.
"THE HUSTLER"-POOl sharks Jackie Gleason and Paul
Newman duel realistically for Director ROssen
"LPL ABNER"-Stela Stevens, Peter Palmer and Stubby
Kaye in a lively, ree-wheeing musical oe-down
PSYCHO"-Alfred HtchcOcks gleefuly macabre and sus
penseful tale of a psychotic killer the loose.
Evening star., 1962-10-03

display her starfish Jewel with
the worlds largest pearl, de-
signed by Salvador Dali. Stern
asked her how she'd like to
model It,. and Mrs. Kean said:
"I'll wear it on top" She
changed into a leotard, strap
ped the jewel around her ankle
then posed standing on her
head.
Chilean-born Luis Harss-his
father was the late Chilean UN
official Benjamin Cohen has
written his first novel. in Eng
lish, Titled "The Blind" it will
be published by Atheneum next
year. New York's top names
came out twice last week fret
for the premiere of Phil
harmonic Hall, ana again Tor
Peter Duchin's debut at the st.
Regis Maisonette.
GrOucho Marx is in New York
to consult with his publisher
about his new book. He says he
probably will never write an
other book. II give up my TV
work to find time to write a
book" Groucho explained.
Then, when its published, the
only way to make sure 10 sells
is to go on TV to plug it. If
Evening star., 1962-10-03

I'm going to be on Tv anyway
why write q book?"
Because Lawrence of Ara
bia" will run four hours, pro-
ducer Sam Spiesel selected
two charities to sponsor the
December 16 premiere =
UNICEF and PAL. Gerold
Frank, who's been ghost-writ-
ing sob story autobiographies,
Just finished his own book. It's
about two boys who assassin
ated Lord Moyne to help get
the British out of Palestine.
Fanny Holtzmann. the lawyer.
showed her paintings for the
first time recently at the Cali
fornia Bar Association, and
won the prize.
The Writers Guild of Amer
lea is arbitrating the claim of
Ludi Claire for screenplay
credit on Cleopatra" Her
claim is based on a six-month
writing assignment for Walter
Wagner in 1863. Lou Walters,
who staged Broadway's biggest
Evening star., 1962-10-03
If This Isn't
jazz, What Is?
BY LEONARD LYONS

with Norman Granz, Miss Fitz-
gerald manager. He'd tried to
rent Philharmonic Hall for an
Ella Fitzgerald one-nighter
and was told it wouldn't be
available. The Hall may be
rented only for concerts. or by
jazz singers. And" said Granz,
Lincoln Center says that Ella
Fitzgerald is not a jazz singer" "
Ellington stopped laughing.
Jazz is measured by a narrow
line" he said, land if you have
scope. !" He wondered whether
his own music would meet the
test.
Miss Fitzgerald, who's won